Andrew Janiak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the editor of Newton: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and author of Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His most recent article is 'Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton' in The Monist (No 93, October 2010). He writes on early modern natural philosophy and on Kant.
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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Newton and his contemporaries | |
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| Newton's law-constitutive approach to bodies: a response to Descartes | |
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| Leibniz, Newton and force | |
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| Locke's qualified embrace of Newton's Principia | |
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| What geometry postulates: Newton and Barrow on the relationship of mathematics to nature | |
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| Philosophical themes in Newton | |
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| Cotes's queries: Newton's empiricism and conceptions of matter | |
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| Newton's scientific method and the universal law of gravitation | |
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| Newton, Huygens, and Euler: empirical support for laws of motion | |
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| What did Newton mean by 'Absolute Motion? | |
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| From velocities to fluxions | |
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| The reception of Newton | |
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| Newton, Locke, and Hume | |
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| Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent properly of matter | |
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| The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza: Newton's Challenge and the Socratic Problem | |
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| Dispositional explanations: Boyle's problem, Newton's solution, Hume's response | |
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| Newton and Kant on absolute space: from theology to transcendental philosophy | |
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| How Newton's Principia changed physics | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
Andrew Janiak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the editor of Newton: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and author of Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His most recent article is 'Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton' in The Monist (No 93, October 2010). He writes on early modern natural philosophy and on Kant.
Eric Schliesser is BOF Research Professor of Philosophy at Ghent University. He has published widely on Newton, Huygens and their eighteenth-century reception (especially Hume and Adam Smith) as well as in the philosophy of economics. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Isaac Newton (Oxford University Press).
