Divine Machines and Univocal Reason: Natural Philosophy Between Duns Scotus and Leibniz
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This essay examines the relationship between the philosophies of nature of John Duns Scotus and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It aims to map out, as a history of philosophy and science, how philosophical concepts, taken as plastic and moldable entities, can be morphed to fit into new contexts and applications, as Leibniz uses scholastic concepts as a ground for a mechanistic natural world. It also argues that this particular progression from pre-modern to modern philosophy and science supports a reading of ?modern? thought where the distinction between cultural interests and the objective (?quantitative?) sciences breaks down.
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Author: Waddell, Julian Raskin
Thesis advisor: Shieh, Sanford
Date
April 15, 2018
Extent
120 pages
Language
eng
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electronic
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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