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Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy

Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World

  • Hardback
  • 298 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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This book is about the influence of varying theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) both believed that all natural phenomena could be explained in terms of matter and motion alone. They disagreed about the details of their mechanical accounts of the world, in particular about their theories of matter and their approaches to scientific method. This book traces their differences back to theological presuppositions they inherited from the Middle Ages. Theological ideas were transformed into philosophical and scientific ideas which led to the emergence of different styles of science in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy and Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
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  • Author

    Margaret J. Osler (university Of Calgary)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 1994

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    298

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521461047

  • ISBN-10

    0521461049

  • Eden Code

    4575126

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