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2022
Abstract This final chapter weaves the arguments of earlier chapters in Part II of this work to give a coherent account of a retrieved and reimagined vision of natural philosophy. The chapter opens by distinguishing this approach from that of the philosopher Nicholas Maxwell.
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Abstract This final chapter weaves the arguments of earlier chapters in Part II of this work to give a coherent account of a retrieved and reimagined vision of natural philosophy. The chapter opens by distinguishing this approach from that of the philosopher Nicholas Maxwell.
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2015
This essay examines how Protestant natural philosophers incorporated theology into their study of nature. It focuses in particular on the impact of Lutheran beliefs, which have tended to receive less attention than seventeenth-century British Puritanism.
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This essay examines how Protestant natural philosophers incorporated theology into their study of nature. It focuses in particular on the impact of Lutheran beliefs, which have tended to receive less attention than seventeenth-century British Puritanism.
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2006
Abstract During the 12th century, certain questions came into focus and inspired speculation about the heavens and the earth, namely, “mobile being”. In other words, nature was “discovered” in the 12th century. It is in the wake of this discovery that, in the 1250s, Bonaventure developed his view of the created world while commenting on ...
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Abstract During the 12th century, certain questions came into focus and inspired speculation about the heavens and the earth, namely, “mobile being”. In other words, nature was “discovered” in the 12th century. It is in the wake of this discovery that, in the 1250s, Bonaventure developed his view of the created world while commenting on ...
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Natural philosophy: Traditional natural philosophy
1988The natural philosophy of the Renaissance was far from being a homogeneous body of knowledge uniformly accepted and taught in the universities. As one might expect during a rebirth of learning, new views of nature and of man's place in nature took their place alongside those of classical antiquity then being rediscovered and explored for a wisdom long ...
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The Mathematical Gazette, 1974
In this lecture we shall see how natural philosophy—or what we traditionally call applied mathematics—is continually changing. I hope to show that the subject is far livelier and more adventurous than we sometimes suppose, and that each advance opens ever wider vistas of further progress.
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In this lecture we shall see how natural philosophy—or what we traditionally call applied mathematics—is continually changing. I hope to show that the subject is far livelier and more adventurous than we sometimes suppose, and that each advance opens ever wider vistas of further progress.
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2019
Abstract Philosophy is the attempt to answer general questions about the nature of knowledge, reality, and values. Natural philosophy draws heavily on the sciences and finds no room for supernatural entities such as souls, gods, and possible worlds.
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Abstract Philosophy is the attempt to answer general questions about the nature of knowledge, reality, and values. Natural philosophy draws heavily on the sciences and finds no room for supernatural entities such as souls, gods, and possible worlds.
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Philosophy of nature: rethinking naturalness
Green Letters, 2017The question of ‘naturalness’, the key focus of this book, is one both relevant to and problematic for ecocritics.
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