کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1160289 | 1490341 | 2013 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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Many discussions of Kant’s picture of monads in his early Physical Monadology highlight the similarities between the view in it and Roger Joseph Boscovich’s view. Though I find this comparison interesting, I argue in this paper that Kant shows significant strands of having a fundamentally non-Boscovichian view in this work. Moreover, I trace the various strands that, I believe, pushed Kant to think about things in a non-Boscovichian way.
► I argue that, in his early monadology, Kant has a view that fundamentally differs from Boscovichian point-particle mechanics.
► I describe the intuitive pressures that push Kant in a non-Boscovichian direction.
► I suggest that Kant is very much on the way to his later view in which material substances are deformable continua.
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 44, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 102–111