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CONTINGENCY AND NATURAL ORDER IN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE
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| By: |
Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Editor), Rodolfo Garau (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£119.99 |
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£104.99 |
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£15.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3319673769 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783319673769 |
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| Publisher: |
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG |
| Pub. date: |
5 February, 2018 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2018 |
| Series: |
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 1000 |
| Description: |
The unpredictability or apparent irregularity of natural phenomena prompted critical reflection upon the limit of human ability to find comprehensive causal explanations, or, to reach a full understanding of the necessary causal concatenation determining each and every natural phenomenon. |
| Synopsis: |
This volume explores the idea of contingency in late-medieval and early-modern science. It focuses on the transformation in the notion of contingency from an ontological to an epistemological view. It examines the period of late-medieval scientific practices and approaches to nature, up to the rise of early modern science, and questions its apparent univocity. It explores the ontological and epistemological and attendant shifts brought about by this fundamental transformation. Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of mechanism, experimental practice, new instruments of observation and measurement, as well as the growing application of mathematical heuristics to the study of nature challenged the traditional ways of understanding the predictability and unpredictability of natural phenomena. Contingency increasingly- but not exclusively - took on an epistemological rather than an ontological cast. The unpredictability or apparent irregularity of natural phenomena prompted critical reflection upon the limit of human ability to find comprehensive causal explanations, or, to reach a full understanding of the necessary causal concatenation determining each and every natural phenomenon. This book explores the developments taking place in the field during this period as well as their ramifications. |
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Approx. 350 p. |
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Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG |
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