Titlebook: Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science; Pietro Daniel Omodeo,Rodolfo Garau Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Ea

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Manipulating Matter and Its Appetites: Francis Bacon on Causation and the Creation of Preternaturale usual course of nature. Interestingly, Bacon does not see a direct contradiction between the idea of the existence of eternal laws of nature, imposed by God at the moment of the creation, and the fact that matter, either through pretergeneration or manipulation, can eventually deviate from such la

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,The Immanent Contingency of Physical Laws in Leibniz’s Dynamics, the contingency of natural laws does not consist only in the fact that God has chosen them over other possible ones. On the contrary, Leibniz understood the status of natural laws as arising from the action internal to physical substances. Hence the actuality of physical laws results from a causal

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Overview: Contingency in Nature,n’t have the resources to explain them or because the events are unpredictable in principle. In what follows, the focus is on contingency as a problem about how we describe those features of the world that fall outside our best theories, including our best high-level theories. On this understanding

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Introduction,rs of quantum physics encountered in their attempt to introduce a nondeterministic conception of physical laws. Schrödinger defended a vision according to which natural regularities are the statistic result of particle interactions occurring by chance. Hence, the idea that nature is determined by ne

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Practices and Theories of Contingency in Renaissance Approaches to Nature,d necessity. In theology and ethics, natural contingency was seen as the necessary presupposition for free will, human responsibility, and salvation. In the Renaissance, the concept of contingency was transplanted from the ethical and theological fields to ontology and epistemology, in order to supp

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,“Qualis alio modo reperiri non potest.” A Few Words on Copernican Necessity,icus offers his system as an ., such that the intellectual vision of the astronomer converges with the divine vision of necessity. My reading here owes a particular debt to Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–1574) and Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) and to the astronomical frontispieces of Oronce Fine (1494–1