Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science

by Matias Slavov

Book Overview

This book contextualizes David Hume's philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume's background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific tradition.

Drawing on Cartesian cosmology and Einstein's special relativity, and taking in topics including experimentalism, causation, laws of nature, metaphysics of forces, mathematics' relation to nature, and the concepts of space and time,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350185035
• ISBN13: 9781350185036
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"