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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255221503321

Autore

Winfield Richard Dien

Titolo

Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel : The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe / / by Richard Dien Winfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319662817

3319662813

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 410 p.)

Disciplina

180-190

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Science - Philosophy

Metaphysics

History of Philosophy

Philosophy of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Presuppositions of Ancient and Modern Conceptions of Nature -- Chapter 2: How and Where to Begin Conceiving Nature: Three Fundamental Options -- Chapter 3:  Space-Time and Matter -- Chapter 4: Matter and Motion -- Chapter 5: From Relative to Absolute Mechanics -- Chapter 6: Physical Process and Light -- Chapter 7: The Physical States of Matter -- Chapter 8:  The Physics of Particular Individuality -- Chapter 9: From Thermodynamics to Electromagnetism -- Chapter 10:  From Electricity to Chemistry.

Sommario/riassunto

This book defies the reigning dismissal of the philosophy of nature by turning to what Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel have had to say about nature and critically thinking through their arguments so as to reconstruct a comprehensive account of the universe. Aided by the contributions of more recent thinkers, such as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Michael B. Foster, and Hans Jonas, Conceiving Nature shows how the mechanics of matter in motion, the physics of electromagnetism, and chemical process provide all that is needed for life to emerge and give rise to rational animals capable of knowing nature in truth. The work



contains detailed discussions of much of Aristotle's writing on nature, of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, and of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.