Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason

Robert E. Schofield

Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
19 May 2015
Pages
346
ISBN
9780691621241

Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason

Robert E. Schofield

Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action–mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each developed more or less independent

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