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Автор: Kassler
Название: Newton`s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept
ISBN: 9783319720524
Издательство: Springer
Классификация:

Философия: эпистемология и теория познания

Философия сознания

Физиология

Философия науки

ISBN-10: 331972052X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 190
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 2018
Серия: Archimedes
Язык: English
Издание: 1st ed. 2018
Иллюстрации: 6 illustrations, black and white; xxv, 190 p. 6 illus.; 6 illustrations, black and white; xxv, 190 p. 6 illus.
Размер: 234 x 156 x 14
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Philosophy of Science
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Поставляется из: Германии
Описание: These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newtons work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time. Newton used the concept of sensorium in writings intended for a public audience, in relation to both humans and God, but even today there is no consensus about the meaning of his term. The literal definition of the Latin term sensorium, or its English equivalent sensory, is thing that feels but this is a theoretical construct.

The book takes readers on a process of discovery, through inquiry into both Newtons concept and its underlying model. It begins with the human sensorium. This part of his concept is situated in the context of the aforesaid writings but also in the context of the writings of two of Newtons contemporaries, the physicians William Briggs and Thomas Willis, both of whom were at the forefront of their respective specialties of ophthalmology and neurology.

Only once the human sensorium has been explored is it possible to generalize to the unobservable divine sensorium, because Newtons method of reasoning from experience requires that the second part of his concept is last in the order of knowledge. And the reason for this sequence is that his method, the short-hand term for which is analogy of nature, proceeds from that which has been observed to be universally true to that which is beyond the limits of observation. Consequently, generalization passes insensibly into reasoning by analogy.

Readers will see how certain widespread assumptions can be called into question, such as that Newton was a theological voluntarist for whom the will is superior to the intellect, or that, for Newton, not only the world or universe but also God occupies the whole extent of infinite space. The insights afforded through this book will appeal to scholars of the philosophy of science, human physiology, philosophy of mind and epistemology, among others.

Дополнительное описание: Introduction.- Part I. The sensorium in Newton’s texts: 1. Preliminary remarks. 1.1. The data.- Part II. The human sensorium in context: 2.1. Newton on the sensory-motor system. 2.2. Summary and comment.- Part III. The human sensorium in wider context. 3.

Newton`s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept, Kassler