dc.contributor.author | Slavov, Matias | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-26T07:22:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-26T07:22:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-951-39-6731-4 | |
dc.identifier.other | oai:jykdok.linneanet.fi:1572606 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/51072 | |
dc.description.abstract | The subject of this essay-based dissertation is Hume’s natural philosophy. The
dissertation consists of four separate essays and an introduction. These essays
do not only treat Hume’s views on the topic of natural philosophy, but his
views are placed into a broader context of history of philosophy and science,
physics in particular. The introductory section outlines the historical context,
shows how the individual essays are connected, expounds what kind of research
methodology has been used, and encapsulates the research contributions
of the essays. The first essay treats Newton’s experimentalist methodology in
gravity research and its relation to Hume’s causal philosophy. It is argued that
Hume does not see the relation of cause and effect as being founded on a priori
reasoning, similar to the way in which Newton criticized non-empirical hypotheses
about the causal properties of gravity. Contrary to Hume’s rules of
causation, the universal law does not include a reference either to contiguity or
succession, but Hume accepts it in interpreting the force and the law of gravity
instrumentally. The second article considers Newtonian and non-Newtonian
elements in Hume more broadly. He is sympathetic to many prominently Newtonian
themes in natural philosophy, such as experimentalism, critique of hypotheses,
inductive proof, and the critique of Leibnizian principles of sufficient
reason and intelligibility. However, Hume is not a Newtonian philosopher in
many respects: his conceptions regarding space and time, the vacuum, the specifics
of causation, the status of mechanism, and the reality of forces differ
markedly from Newton’s related conceptions. The third article focuses on
Hume’s Fork and the proper epistemic status of propositions of mixed mathematics.
It is shown that the epistemic status of propositions of mixed mathematics,
such as those concerning laws of nature, is that of matters of fact. The reason
for this is that the propositions of mixed mathematics are dependent on the
Uniformity Principle. The fourth article analyzes Einstein’s acknowledgement
of Hume regarding special relativity. The views of the scientist and the philosopher
are juxtaposed, and it is argued that there are two common points to be
found in their writings, namely an empiricist theory of ideas and concepts and a
relationist ontology regarding space and time. | |
dc.format.extent | 1 verkkoaineisto (70 sivua) | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | University of Jyväskylä | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.subject.other | Hume, David | |
dc.subject.other | Newton, Isaac | |
dc.subject.other | Einstein, Albert | |
dc.subject.other | Humen haarukka | |
dc.subject.other | history of philosophy and science | |
dc.subject.other | causation | |
dc.subject.other | experimentalism | |
dc.subject.other | laws of nature | |
dc.subject.other | Hume's Fork | |
dc.subject.other | space and time | |
dc.title | Essays concerning Hume's natural philosophy | |
dc.type | Diss. | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:ISBN:978-951-39-6731-4 | |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
dc.type.ontasot | Väitöskirja | fi |
dc.type.ontasot | Doctoral dissertation | en |
dc.contributor.tiedekunta | Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta | fi |
dc.contributor.yliopisto | University of Jyväskylä | en |
dc.contributor.yliopisto | Jyväskylän yliopisto | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Filosofia | fi |
dc.relation.issn | 0075-4625 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 556 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | |
dc.subject.yso | tieteenfilosofia | |
dc.subject.yso | tieteenhistoria | |
dc.subject.yso | luonnonfilosofia | |
dc.subject.yso | kausaliteetti | |
dc.subject.yso | kokeellisuus | |
dc.subject.yso | luonnonlait | |
dc.subject.yso | väittämät | |
dc.subject.yso | aika | |
dc.subject.yso | avaruus | |
dc.rights.url | https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ | |