Idea of Nature
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 1968
192 pages
978-0-19-802001-1 (ISBN)
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Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFATORY NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Science and Philosophy
- 2. The Greek view of Nature
- 3. The Renaissance view of Nature
- 4. The Modern view of Nature
- 5. Consequences of this view
- (i) Change no longer cyclical but progressive
- (ii) Nature no longer mechanical
- (iii) Teleology reintroduced
- (iv) Substance resolved into function
- (v) Minimum Space and Minimum Time
- PART I. GREEK COSMOLOGY
- I. THE IONIANS
- 1. The Ionian science of Nature
- 2. Limits of Ionian natural science
- 3. Meaning of the word 'nature'
- II. THE PYTHAGOREANS
- 1. Pythagoras
- 2. Plato: The Theory of Forms
- 3. Plato's Cosmology: the Timaeus
- III. ARISTOTLE
- 1. Meaning of [omitted]
- 2. Nature as self-moving
- 3. Aristotle's theory of knowledge
- 4. Aristotle's theology
- 5. Plurality of unmoved movers
- 6. Matter
- PART II. THE RENAISSANCE VIEW OF NATURE
- I. THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
- 1. Anti-Aristotelianism
- 2. Renaissance cosmology: first stage
- 3. Copernicus
- 4. Renaissance cosmology: second stage. Giordano Bruno
- 5. Bacon
- 6. Gilbert and Kepler
- 7. Galileo
- 8. Mind and matter. Materialism
- 9. Spinoza
- 10. Newton
- 11. Leibniz
- 12. Summary: contrast between Greek and Renaissance cosmology
- II. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 1. Berkeley
- 2. Kant
- III. HEGEL: THE TRANSITION TO THE MODERN VIEW OF NATURE
- PART III. THE MODERN VIEW OF NATURE
- I. THE CONCEPT OF LIFE
- 1. Evolutionary biology
- 2. Bergson
- II. MODERN PHYSICS
- 1. The old theory of matter
- 2. Its complications and inconsistencies
- 3. The new theory of matter
- 4. The finitude of nature
- III. MODERN COSMOLOGY
- 1. Alexander
- 2. Whitehead
- 3. Conclusion: from Nature to History
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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