Synopses & Reviews
Andrew Janiak examines Newton's philosophical positions and his relations to canonical figures in early modern philosophy through Newton's principal philosophical writings. Janiak's study includes excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks, Newton's famous correspondence with Boyle and with Bentley, and his equally significant correspondence with Leibniz, often ignored in favor of Leibniz's later debate with Samuel Clarke. (Newton's exchanges with Leibniz place their different understandings of natural philosophy in sharp relief.)
Synopsis
In this volume, Newton's principal philosophical writings are for the first time collected in a single place. They include excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks, his correspondence with Boyle and with Bentley, and his equally significant correspondence with Leibniz. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction.
Synopsis
This volume collects together Newton's principal philosophical writings for the first time.
About the Author
Andrew Janiak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University
Table of Contents
1. Correspondence with Robert Boyle [1679]; 2. 'De Gravitatione' [c. 1685]; 3. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [1687, first edition]; 4. Correspondence with Richard Bentley [1692-3]; 5. Correspondence with Leibniz [1693 and 1712]; 6. Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]; 7. 'An Account of the Book Entitled 'Commercium Epistolicum' [1715]; 8. Queries to the Opticks [1721].