Chapter I. The First Task of the Philosophy of Nature The Problem of Elementarity.-Chapter II. The Philosophical Myth of Creation The Platonic Philosophy of Nature.-Chapter III. Aristotle s Physics.-Chapter IV. Aristotle s Method of Cosmological Speculation.-Chapter V. Descartes Mechanism.-Chapter VI. Isaac Newton and The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.-Chapter VII. The World of Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Worlds.-Chapter VIII. Immanuel Kant: The a priori Conditions of the Sciences.-Chapter IX. The Romantic Philosophy of Nature.-Chapter X. The Cosmology of Whitehead: The Universe as Process.- Chapter XI. Popper s Open Universe.-Chapter XII. Science as Philosophy.-Chapter XIII. Problems and Methods of the Philosophy of Nature.
EAN/ISBN : 9783642177057
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
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Author(s): Heller, Michael