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Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

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Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

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This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles, only three of which have appeared before in English translation. It also includes in full Leibniz's public controversies with De Catelan, Papin, and Hartsoeker. The articles include work in optics, on the fracture strength of materials, and on motion in a resisting medium, and Leibniz's pioneering applications of his calculus to these issues by construing them as mini-max and inverse tangent problems. Other topics covered by the articles include: criticisms of the Cartesian estimate of motive force and Leibniz's proposal of a different way of estimating force to replace it; a proposed theory of celestial motions and gravitation, and derivation of the inverse square law; challenge problems concerning the isochronous curve and the catenary; a sample of work on gaming theory; and Leibniz's critique of atomism.

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Oxford University Press

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0192843532

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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

By: Tzuchien Tho

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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

By: Tzuchien Tho

This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz’s dynamics project (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the concepts of physical causality in Leibniz’s work and 17th century physics. It argues that Leibniz’s theory of forces privileges the causal relationship between structural organization and physical phenomena instead of body-to-body mechanical causation. The mature conception of Leibnizian force is not the power of one body to cause motion in another, but a kind of structural causation related to the configuration of integral systems of bodies in physical evolution. By treating the immanent philosophy of Leibniz’s dynamics, this book makes explicit the systematic aims and inherent limits of Leibniz's physical project, in addition to providing an alternative vision of the scientific understanding of the physical world in the late 17th and early 18th century.

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Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

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The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic

By: Alain Badiou,Joel Bellassen,Louis Mossot

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The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic

By: Alain Badiou,Joel Bellassen,Louis Mossot

The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic is the last in a trilogy of political-philosophical essays, preceded by Theory of Contradiction and On Ideology, written during the dark days at the end of the decade after May '68. With the late 1970¿s ¿triumphant restoration¿ in Europe, China and the United States, Badiou and his collaborators return to Hegel with a Chinese twist. By translating, annotating and providing commentary to a contemporaneous text by Chinese Hegelian Zhang Shi Ying, Badiou and his collaborators attempt to diagnose the status of the dialectic in their common political and philosophical horizon. Readers of Badiou¿s more recent work will find a crucial developmental step in his work in ontology and find echoes of his current project of a 'communist hypothesis'. This translation is accompanied by a recent interview that questions Badiou on the discrepancies between this text and his current thought, on the nature of dialectics, negativity, modality and his understanding of the historical, political and geographical distance that his text introduces into the present.

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0980819776

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Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

Leibniz: Publications on Natural Philosophy

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic

The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic

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