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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics Tzuchien Tho

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics By Tzuchien Tho

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics by Tzuchien Tho


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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.

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics Summary

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.

About Tzuchien Tho

Tzuchien Tho is postdoctoral research fellow at the Universita degli Studi di Milano and formerly at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Bucharest). He has published papers on the intersections of mathematics, ontology and natural science in the 17th and the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is structural causation?.- Chapter 3. The equivalence of hypotheses and dynamical causation.- Chapter 4. Continuity and causation in the dynamics.- Chapter 5. The changing concept of the equipollence of cause and effect.- Chapter 6. Vis viva in a monadic world.

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NLS9783319865386
9783319865386
3319865382
Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics by Tzuchien Tho
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Paperback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-08-12
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