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Natural Philosophy and Natural Logic [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2018
1. Nature has its own logic, which does not follow the human will. Nature is itself; it exists, moves, changes, and evolves according to its own intrinsic ways. Human and human society, as a product of a specific stage of natural development, can only be
Kun Wu, Zhensong Wang
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The institutionalisation of biology in the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1866-1894

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2022
Biology, like most scientific disciplines, emerged in the nineteenth century. However, disciplinary institutionalisation processes are not linear; a concept can be proposed, but not develop.
Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Caso
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Producing Knowledge in Early Modern Rome: Concepts and Practices of Disegno in the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia dei Lincei

open access: yesJournal for the History of Knowledge, 2021
This article offers new insights into the relationship between science and art in the early modern period by focusing on the concepts and practices of disegno (meaning a physical drawing or a mental design) in two Roman academies around 1600: the ...
Matthijs Jonker
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Daniel Sennert’s Corpuscularian Reforms to Natural Philosophy

open access: yesHistories, 2023
Daniel Sennert (1572–1637), professor of medicine and natural philosophy in Wittenberg, defended a highly unusual philosophical system. This paper examines Sennert’s vision of natural philosophy within the context of the rapidly changing environment of ...
Gabriel Müller
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Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies—Part 2

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2020
This is a short presentation by the Guest Editors of the series of Special Issues of the journal Philosophies under the common title “Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies” in which we present Part 2. The series will continue, and the call for
Marcin J. Schroeder   +1 more
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Kant’s ethical attitudes in his master’s thesis On fire [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
The significance of the ethical concepts of Kant, developed in the critical period of his philosophy, goes far beyond the boundaries of the Enlightenment.
Lugovoy Sergey
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Universal Gravitation and the (Un)Intelligibility of Natural Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article centers on Hume’s position on the intelligibility of natural philosophy. To that end, the controversy surrounding universal gravitation shall be scrutinized.
Slavov, Matias
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The development of mechanics and engineering design and machine theory since the rennaissance [PDF]

open access: yesFME Transactions, 2021
The history of science and mechanics is confronted by two interconnected problems: a critical accumulation and systematization of historical information about the subject of study, and the relationship between events and the laws of their development.The
Chondros Thomas G.
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Perspectives on Natural Philosophy

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2018
This paper presents a viewpoint on natural philosophy focusing on the organization of substance, as well as its changes as invited by the Second Law of thermodynamics.
Stanley N. Salthe
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"Hypotheses fingimus": Cartesian Natural Philosophy

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2021
In this paper, I would like to present the methodological views of two representatives of the early modern Cartesian school: Jacques Rohault and Pierre-Sylvain Régis. Firstly, I want to present the methodological objections of Cartesians to Aristotelian
Daniel Špelda
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