The philosophy of nature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
[1986]
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| Series: | Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;
v. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The philosophy of nature
- The modern concept of nature
- The physcial as matter
- Matter and mind
- Atomism, substance, and the concept of body
- Leibniz and the analysis of matter and motion
- Concepts of space
- The meaning of "Space" in Kant
- The problem of the physical existent
- The physcial existent as a compound actuality
- The problem of relations
- Physical existence, matter, activity
- Compounds, body, change
- Motion, action, and physical being
- Platonism, Aristotelianism, and modern science.