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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 46
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This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz's
dynamics project (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a more
comprehensive understanding of the concepts of physical causality
in Leibniz's work and 17th century physics. It argues that
Leibniz's theory of forces privileges the causal relationship
between structural organization and physical phenomena instead of
body-to-body mechanical causation. The mature conception of
Leibnizian force is not the power of one body to cause motion in
another, but a kind of structural causation related to the
configuration of integral systems of bodies in physical evolution.
By treating the immanent philosophy of Leibniz's dynamics, this
book makes explicit the systematic aims and inherent limits of
Leibniz's physical project, in addition to providing an alternative
vision of the scientific understanding of the physical world in the
late 17th and early 18th century.
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