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Jun 6, 2017 · Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature is best understood through its contribution to Hegel’s larger philosophical project of both articulating and actually achieving human freedom. It contributes to this project by showing that nature and natural things are themselves free, in a specific sense of freedom that Hegel critically appropriates from Kant.
Feb 2, 2019 · Andrea Borghini. Updated on February 02, 2019. The idea of nature is one of the most widely employed in philosophy and by the same token one of the most ill-defined. Authors such as Aristotle and Descartes relied on the concept of nature to explain the fundamental tenets of their views, without ever attempting to define the concept.
Philosophy of nature, also known as natural philosophy or cosmology, is a branch of natural sciences that deals with the world of nature in general. Philosophers of nature traditionally study questions about the definition of matter, motion, time, and infinity, and speculate on the components of the universe.
The world includes nature, consciousness, morality, beauty, and social organizations. So the content available for philosophy is both broad and deep. Because of its very nature, philosophy considers a range of subjects, and philosophers cannot automatically rule anything out.
Apr 29, 2003 · Laws of Nature. First published Tue Apr 29, 2003; substantive revision Mon Nov 16, 2020. Science includes many principles at least once thought to be laws of nature: Newton’s law of gravitation, his three laws of motion, the ideal gas laws, Mendel’s laws, the laws of supply and demand, and so on.
Turns out Feyerabend had been working on and off on a series of books about what he called ‘philosophy of nature’, meaning, about how human beings have historically made sense of the cosmos. The project began to take shape in the early 70s, but by the end of the decade it was forgotten, apparently even by Feyerabend himself.
The book develops this alternative metaphysic and considers the consequences for philosophy, and for some other areas of investigation, of working with such a metaphysic. Ellis argues that these consequences are profound and that a new essentialism provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature for a modern scientific understanding of the world.
