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- Interpreting Newton
- Interpreting Newton
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Newton and his contemporaries
- Part II Philosophical themes in Newton
- Part III The reception of Newton
- 10 Newton,Locke, and Hume
- 11 Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property of matter
- 12 The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza
- 13 Dispositional explanations
- 14 Newton and Kant on absolute space
- 15 How Newton'sPrincipiachanged physics
- References
- Index
12 - The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza
Newton's Challenge and the Socratic Problem
from Part III - The reception of Newton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Interpreting Newton
- Interpreting Newton
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Newton and his contemporaries
- Part II Philosophical themes in Newton
- Part III The reception of Newton
- 10 Newton,Locke, and Hume
- 11 Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property of matter
- 12 The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza
- 13 Dispositional explanations
- 14 Newton and Kant on absolute space
- 15 How Newton'sPrincipiachanged physics
- References
- Index
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- Interpreting NewtonCritical Essays, pp. 299 - 319Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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