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• The Cambridge companion to Newton

  Author:M. DickinsonFrom:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 54, Issue 7)

  Mar. 2017247 words Book review, Brief a... 1000LThe Cambridge companion to Newton, ed. by Rob Iliffe and George E. Smith. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 2016. 637p bibl index afp ISBN 9781107015463 cloth, $120.00; ISBN 9781107601741 pbk, $36.99; ISBN 9781316547410 ebook, $30.00...

• The solar system's extended shelf life: simulations show that orbital chaos can lead to collisions between Earth and the inner planets. But Einstein's tweaks to Newton's theory of gravity render these ruinous outcomes unlikely in the next few billion years.

  Author:Gregory LaughlinFrom:Nature (Vol. 459, Issue 7248) Peer-Reviewed

  June 11, 20091,190 words Article 1640LIn the midst of a seemingly endless torrent of baleful economic and environmental news, a dispatch from the field of celestial dynamics manages to sound a note of definite cheer. On page 817 of this issue, Laskar and...

• Leibniz, China, and the problem of Pagan wisdom

  Author:Daniel J. CookFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20154,289 words Essay 1480LGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz' mature years coincided with the first major European encounter with the thought and civilization of China. From the 1660s onward, many European thinkers and theologians were especially...

• Books received

  From:The Philosophical Review (Vol. 111, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20022,888 words Article The Human Project: The Year 2000. Value Inquiry Book Series. By Nicola Abbagnano. Ed. Nino Langiulli. Trans. Bruno Martini and Nino Langiulli. Atlantic Highlands: Rodopi, 2002. Pp. xxv, 162. Kant's Empirical Realism....

• On the Tension Between Physics and Mathematics.

  Author:Miklós RédeiFrom:Journal for General Philosophy of Science (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20207,524 words Article 1490LBecause of the complex interdependence of physics and mathematics their relation is not free of tensions. The paper looks at how the tension has been perceived and articulated by some physicists, mathematicians and...

• A post-Kuhnian approach to the history and philosophy of science

  Author:Michael FriedmanFrom:The Monist (Vol. 93, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20108,979 words Essay 1880LWhat I call the dynamics of reason is an approach to the history and philosophy of science developed in response to Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions. Unlike many philosophical responses to Kulm, however,...

• The pragmatics of scientific knowledge: Howard Stein's reshaping of logical empiricism

  Author:A.W. CarusFrom:The Monist (Vol. 93, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20109,053 words Essay 1630LOne preoccupation of Howard Stein's work is the nature of understanding, especially the dialectic between knowledge and understanding. He says, for instance, that "understanding without knowledge is blind; knowledge...

• Substance and action in Descartes and Newton

  Author:Andrew JaniakFrom:The Monist (Vol. 93, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20108,868 words Essay 1490LSince the publication of Newton's optical papers in the 1670s, and the appearance of Principia mathematica in 1687, his work has been associated with what was then called the "experimental philosophy," and later termed...

• Newton on mass and force: a comment on Max Jammer's Concepts of Mass (1961; 2000)

  Author:Ed DellianFrom:Physics Essays (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20038,191 words Article The concepts of mass and force, as understood in contemporary physics, mean qualities of matter. The somewhat mysterious quality "mass" is said to appear in two or even three different ways: inertial mass, active...

• The Holy Spirit and the physical universe: the impact of scientific paradigm shifts on contemporary pneumatology

  Author:Wolfgang VondeyFrom:Theological Studies (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 200915,124 words Essay 1660LA methodological shift occurred in the sciences in the 20th century that has irreversible repercussions for a contemporary theology of the Holy Spirit. Newton and Einstein followed fundamentally different trajectories...

• Outstanding Academic Titles, 2017: Choice's annual list of the most significant print and electronic works reviewed during the year

  From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 55, Issue 5)

  Jan. 201815,360 words Article 1120LChoosing the works that constitute our annual Outstanding Academic Titles list--affectionately known as the OATs--takes an entire year of effort. Each of the subject editors here at Choice combs through the hundreds...