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The construction of a new world picture. The completeness of natural philosophy ; A new metaphysics ; Physico-theology ; The rationalization of religion
The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. From Principia philosophiae to Principia mathematica ; The structure of Newton's Principia ; Gravitation : matter theory versus mechanics
The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy. Leibniz and the unity of knowledge ; The role of metaphysics ; Leibnizian dynamics ; Demonstration : geometry versus analysis ; Phenomenalism and the rise of rational mechanics
From experimental philosophy to empiricism. The vindication of experimental philosophy ; The origins of Locke's Essay ; Natural philosophy and primary qualities ; Locke and the defence of Newton
Explaining the phenomena. The "Nature" of species ; The "nature" of electricity ; The "nature" of metals ; Causation and explanation
Natural philosophy and the republic of letters. The Académie des Sciences and the republic of letters ; Vortices, attraction, and the shape of the Earth
The realm of reason. The birth of the Philosophe ; The Encyclopédie ; Reason and the unity of knowledge
The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy. Explanatory models and the unity of natural philosophy ; Mechanics as a priori discipline ; The limits of mechanics
Material activity. The resurgence of an autonomous matter theory ; Electrified matter ; The chemistry of fluids and sympathies
Living and dead matter. Matter and activity ; A developmental history of the world
The realm of sensibility. From sensibility to sensibilism ; Physiological sensitivity ; Moral sensibility ; The unity of sensibility
Historical understanding and the human condition. The history of manners ; From myth to reason ; Reason and sensibility ; The varieties of understanding.
The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. From Principia philosophiae to Principia mathematica ; The structure of Newton's Principia ; Gravitation : matter theory versus mechanics
The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy. Leibniz and the unity of knowledge ; The role of metaphysics ; Leibnizian dynamics ; Demonstration : geometry versus analysis ; Phenomenalism and the rise of rational mechanics
From experimental philosophy to empiricism. The vindication of experimental philosophy ; The origins of Locke's Essay ; Natural philosophy and primary qualities ; Locke and the defence of Newton
Explaining the phenomena. The "Nature" of species ; The "nature" of electricity ; The "nature" of metals ; Causation and explanation
Natural philosophy and the republic of letters. The Académie des Sciences and the republic of letters ; Vortices, attraction, and the shape of the Earth
The realm of reason. The birth of the Philosophe ; The Encyclopédie ; Reason and the unity of knowledge
The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy. Explanatory models and the unity of natural philosophy ; Mechanics as a priori discipline ; The limits of mechanics
Material activity. The resurgence of an autonomous matter theory ; Electrified matter ; The chemistry of fluids and sympathies
Living and dead matter. Matter and activity ; A developmental history of the world
The realm of sensibility. From sensibility to sensibilism ; Physiological sensitivity ; Moral sensibility ; The unity of sensibility
Historical understanding and the human condition. The history of manners ; From myth to reason ; Reason and sensibility ; The varieties of understanding.