Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel
The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe
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Negation, Contradiction, and Hegel’s Emancipation of Truth, Right, and Beauty
Thinkers have never been able to deny the centrality of negation and contradiction in everything human, despite all their efforts to banish both from the domains of truth, right, and beauty. Unless we properly...
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Introduction
The introduction challenges the prevailing substitution of the philosophy of science for the philosophy of nature by exposing the unsupportable assumptions of this move. To rehabilitate the philosophy of natur...
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The Presuppositions of Ancient and Modern Conceptions of Nature
In this Chapter draws upon Michael B. Foster’s analysis of the theological and metaphysical presuppositions of natural science to examine the fundamental connections between ancient theology and science of nat...
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Space-Time and Matter
This chapter examines how the conceptions of space and time provide the natural, but non-material resources for determining matter. On this basis, the chapter critically examines how Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel...
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From Thermodynamics to Electromagnetism
In this chapter begins by examining the ambiguous position of Hegel’s account of thermodynamics, and then turns to address electromagnetism, as manifest in polar charge, electricity, magnetism, and crystal for...
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From Relative to Absolute Mechanics
This chapter examines the salient implications of Aristotle’s account of motion, as well as how Kantian pure mechanics impoverishes natural process. In face of these consequences, the chapter considers Hegel’s...
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The Physical States of Matter
This chapter explores how matter can have particular physical states. The discussion begins by drawing the lessons of Aristotle’s account of the basic physical elements. Next what Kant has to say about liquids...
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How and Where to Begin Conceiving Nature: Three Fundamental Options
This chapter considers with what the philosophy of nature should begin. Whereas philosophy cannot begin by conceiving nature, how nature is addressed depends upon how the project of philosophy is itself unders...
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Matter and Motion
This chapter focuses on Aristotle’s and Kant’s treatments of matter and motion. The chapter begins by focusing on how Aristotle considers locomotion in its own right and in its relation to the other changes in...
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From Electricity to Chemistry
This chapter begins by examining electricity in relation to other electromagnetic phenomena. The discussion then focuses on exploring how electricity provides the enabling conditions of chemical process. Hegel...
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Physical Process and Light
This chapter begins by providing a preliminary outline of the divisions of physical process, which supervene upon the mechanics of matter in motion. Aristotle’s and Hegel’s accounts of light are then examined ...
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The Physics of Particular Qualities
This chapter addresses the particular physical qualities that early modern philosophy has so much difficulty acknowledging. The discussion begins by examining the relation of pure mechanics to the void, densit...
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How Should Essence Be Determined? Reflections on Hegel’s Two Divergent Accounts
Hegel’s Logic of Essence has presented a special challenge to readers. On Hegel’s own account, the categories of essence are the most difficult to comprehend1 and that difficulty has been accentuated by the prima...
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Economy and Ethical Community
One of the most pathbreaking achievements of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right is its conception of the economy as a system of needs belonging to civil society which is one of three spheres of ethical community interme...
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Being and Idea
The relationship of Being and Idea has preoccupied philosophy ever since Plato. Although Plato did not explicitly distinguish the Idea from the Concept, he recognized that if ideas were just subjective univers...
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Negation and Truth
The place of negation in truth has been acknowledged yet misunderstood ever since Aristotle remarked that truth involves stating the being of what is and the nonbeing of what is not, whereas falsity involves a...
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The Objectivity of Thought
How can thought be objective? The answer to this question depends as much upon the nature of thought as upon the nature of objectivity.
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The Logic of Nature
The philosophy of nature has become virtually an oxymoron for the prevailing philosophical consensus. Reason, we are told, is powerless to conceive what nature is in itself, but it must instead hand over all u...
