商品描述
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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書系統性地重建了萊布尼茲的動力學計畫（約1676-1700），有助於更全面地理解萊布尼茲作品中的物理因果概念以及17世紀的物理學。書中主張，萊布尼茲的力的理論重視結構組織與物理現象之間的因果關係，而非物體之間的機械因果關係。成熟的萊布尼茲力的概念並不是一個物體使另一個物體運動的能力，而是一種與物體整體系統在物理演化中的配置相關的結構性因果關係。通過探討萊布尼茲動力學的內在哲學，本書明確了萊布尼茲物理計畫的系統目標和固有限制，並提供了17世紀末至18世紀初對物理世界科學理解的另一種視角。
作者簡介
Tzuchien Tho is postdoctoral research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano and formerly at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Bucharest). He has published papers on the intersections of mathematics, ontology and natural science in the 17th and the 20th century.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Tzuchien Tho 是米蘭大學的博士後研究員，曾任職於布加勒斯特大學人文研究所。他發表了有關17世紀和20世紀數學、本體論與自然科學交叉領域的論文。
