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dc.contributor.authorSlavov, Matias
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-25T07:30:42Z
dc.date.available2015-11-25T07:30:42Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationSlavov, M. (2013). Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Hume's Conception of Causality. <i>Philosophia Naturalis</i>, <i>50</i>(2), 277-305. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3196/003180215815620396" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3196/003180215815620396</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_25308675
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_67868
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/47812
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the relationship between Hume’s causal philosophy and Newton’s philosophy of nature. I claim that Newton’s experimentalist methodology in gravity research is an important background for understanding Hume’s conception of causality: Hume sees the relation of cause and effect as not being founded on a priori reasoning, similar to the way that Newton criticized non-empirical hypotheses about the properties of gravity. However, according to Hume’s criteria of causal inference, the law of universal gravitation is not a complete causal law, since it does not include a reference either to contiguity or to temporal priority. It is still argued that because of the empirical success of Newton’s theory—the law is a statement of an exceptionless repetition—Hume gives his support to it in interpreting gravity force instrumentally as if it bore a causal relation to motion.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherVittorio Klostermann
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhilosophia Naturalis
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherDavid Hume
dc.subject.otherIsaac Newton
dc.titleNewton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Hume's Conception of Causality
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201511243783
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineFilosofiafi
dc.contributor.oppiainePhilosophyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2015-11-24T10:15:08Z
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dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange277-305
dc.relation.issn0031-8027
dc.relation.numberinseries2
dc.relation.volume50
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© Vittorio Klostermann. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Vittorio Klostermann. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
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dc.subject.ysogravitaatio
dc.subject.ysokausaliteetti
dc.subject.ysofilosofia
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p333
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1056
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dc.relation.doi10.3196/003180215815620396
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