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This is the first volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. Among the many significant contributions of the volume are a detailed engagement with Newton's optical writings, a careful contextualization of Newton's methods in seventeenth century context, a critical analysis of the ways in which Locke and Hume responded to Newton, and a history of the reception of Newton's methods in astronomy.
Contents
Introduction ; I. The Roots of Newton's Experimental Method ; 1. Stephen Gaukroger (Aberdeen & Sydney): "Empiricism as a Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy" ; 2. Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest): "Constructing Natural Historical Facts: Baconian Methodology in Newton's First Paper on Light and Colors" ; 3. Philippe Hamou (Universite de Lille III): "Colorific Properties, Visual Sensation and Method in Newton's Opticks" ; II. Newton and "Empiricist" Philosophers ; 4.Lisa Downing (Ohio State): "Locke's Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics" ; 5. Geoff Gorham & Ed Slowik. "Locke and Newton on Space and Time and their Sensible Measures" ; 6. Yoram Hazony (Shalem Institute): "Hume's Attack on Newton: A Reappraisal" ; 7. Tamas Demeter (Max Planck Institute): "Enlarging the Bounds of Moral Philosophy: Newton's Method and Hume's Science of Man" ; III. Newtonian Method in 18th and 18th-Century Science ; 8. Tammy Nyden (Grinnel College): "Living Force at Leiden: De Volder, 's Gravesande and the Reception of Newtonianism" ; 9. Charles Wolfe (Sydney): "On the role of Newtonian analogies in eighteenth-century life science: Vitalism and provisionally inexplicable explicative devices" ; 10. George Smith (Tufts): "Closing the Loop: Testing Newtonian Gravity, Then and Now"
