Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond

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New York: Routledge (2010)
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This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways. Part I concerns Cartesian Matter; Part II covers Matter, Mechanism and Medicine; Part III covers Matter and the Laws of Motion; and Part IV covers Leibniz and Hume. Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars of early modern philosophy, as well as some exciting new researchers, _Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion _stakes out new territory that all serious scholars of early modern philosophy and science will want to traverse

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Leibniz on Void and Matter.Sorin Costreie
Introduction.  (pages 1-7)Peter R. Anstey
Without God: gravity as a relational quality of matter in Newton's treatise.  (pages 13--80)Eric Schliesser
The Matter of Medicine: New Medical Matter Theories in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England.  (pages 61-79)Peter R. Anstey
Hume on the Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities.  (pages 235-259)Jani Hakkarainen

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Dana Jalobeanu
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