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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s DynamicsVis viva in a Monadic World

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics: Vis viva in a Monadic World [The sixth and final chapter of this book attempts use the perspective developed in the previous chapters to resolve a seeming contradiction between the doctrine of inherent substantial forcesinherent force developed in Leibniz’s dynamics and the late doctrine of the autarchy of monads, a mainstay of his late period (post-1695) metaphysics. The immediate problem is how a dynamical theory of corporeal motion can be coherent with the seeming reductive kinematic nature of physical reality implied by monadic perception. This problem is treated first by looking at Leibniz’s theory of space in the analysis situs project and using its insights to understand the nature of relative motion in his correspondences with Clarke. This investigation sheds light on the concept of physical causality in the dynamics that treats the effects of physical phenomenon as a group of internally related empirical variations. Solidifying this concept of structural or dynamical causality by contextualizing it through the methodology of symmetry and invariance that Leibniz inherited from his mentor Huygens, this notion of causality can be shown to be consistent with the autarchy of monads.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s DynamicsVis viva in a Monadic World

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-59053-0
Pages
119 –138
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-59055-4_6
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[The sixth and final chapter of this book attempts use the perspective developed in the previous chapters to resolve a seeming contradiction between the doctrine of inherent substantial forcesinherent force developed in Leibniz’s dynamics and the late doctrine of the autarchy of monads, a mainstay of his late period (post-1695) metaphysics. The immediate problem is how a dynamical theory of corporeal motion can be coherent with the seeming reductive kinematic nature of physical reality implied by monadic perception. This problem is treated first by looking at Leibniz’s theory of space in the analysis situs project and using its insights to understand the nature of relative motion in his correspondences with Clarke. This investigation sheds light on the concept of physical causality in the dynamics that treats the effects of physical phenomenon as a group of internally related empirical variations. Solidifying this concept of structural or dynamical causality by contextualizing it through the methodology of symmetry and invariance that Leibniz inherited from his mentor Huygens, this notion of causality can be shown to be consistent with the autarchy of monads.]

Published: Jun 30, 2017

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