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Date and Place: 84:4 October 2001 |
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| THE MONIST An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry Edited by Barry Smith (mailto:phismith@acsu.buffalo.edu) http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/Publications/Monet/ |
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Deadline: October 2000 |
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| Advisory Editor: Karl Schuhmann (Utrecht) | |
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| This issue of The Monist will deal with the theories of
physics which were dominant in the centuries before Newton's Principia. Special attention
will be given to late Scholastic views of physics, for example in the work of the
Conimbricenses and Toletus, and also in the work of such early Protestant Scholastics as
Melanchthon, Keckermann and Alstedius. Consideration may be given also to Renaissance
views of nature, for example as proposed by Telesio, Patrizi, Ramus; and to mechanicistic
views of nature such as those of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, and Malebranche. Galileo, Kepler and other prominent scientists may also be considered. Contributions are invited which expound and criticize the works of these and related thinkers, or which offer general surveys and elucidations of the philosophical significance of work in fields such as optics, astronomy and medicine in the period in question. ______________________________________ Department of Philosophy 611 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo 716 633 2041 Buffalo NY 14260 - 1010 fax: 716 645 6139 http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith email Barry Smith: phismith@acsu.buffalo.edu |
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