Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant

Wolfgang Lefèvre taught philosophy in connection with history of science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1994 Senior Scholar and now Emeritus scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. His research is focused on the interrelations of technological and scientific knowledge in the early modern period. Recent publication: »Minerva meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450-1750 (2021).

Introduction.- 1. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics  (Alan Gabbey).- 2. Leibniz' Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics (Hartmut Hecht).- 3. The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in d'Alemberts Philosophy (François De Gandt).- 4. "In Nature as in Geometry": Du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects (Aaron Wells).- 5. Order of Nature and Order of Science (Helmut Pulte).- 6. Samuel Clarke's Annotations in Jacques Rohault's Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton's Physics (Volkmar Schüller).- 7. "Feigning Hypotheses": non-Newtonian Approaches to Gravitation - Euler and Le Sage (Maria de Paz).- 8. Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton (Eric Watkins).- 9. Enlightenment Scotland's Philosophico-Chemical Physics (David Wilson ).- 10. Materialistic Theories ofMind and Brain (Ann Thomson ).- 11. Kant's Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think (Falk Wunderlich ).- 12. Cosmological Constellations: Varieties of Cosmology Available to Kant in 1755 (Stephen Howard).- 13. Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification and its Philosophical Contexts (Wolfgang Lefèvre ).- 14. Beyond Newton, Leibniz, and Kant: Constrained Motion and New Conceptual Foundations, 1740-1800 (Marius Stan).- Appendix 1.Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV trough IX Book III of his Principia.- Appendix 2. The Concepts of Immanuel Kant's Natural Philosophy (1747-1780): A Database Rendering their Explicit and Implicit Networks.