We are delighted to announce the autumn issue of Society and Politics:
God and the Order of Nature in Early Modern Thought: Topics in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Natural Science
Invited editors: Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest) and
Grigore Vida (New Europe College, Bucharest)
Volume 6, Issue no. 2 (12), November 2012
Please find below the table of contents:
Introduction
David Beck (University of Warwick) - Regional Natural History in England: Physico-Theology and the Exploration of Nature
Tobias Schöttler (Ruhr Universität Bochum) - From Causes to Relations: The Emergence of a Non-Aristotelian Concept of Geometrical Proof out of the Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum
Steven Burgess (University of South Florida) - Resolving the Question of Doubt: Geometrical Demonstration in the Meditations
Tzuchien Tho (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) - Equivocation in the Foundations of Leibniz’s Infinitesimal Fictions
Patrick Brissey (University of South Carolina) - Descartes and the Meteorology of the World
Joseph Michael Anderson (University of South Florida) - Necessitarianism in Leibniz’s Confessio Philosophi
Book reviews:
Lucian Petrescu (Ghent University) - Fides et Ratio in the Renaissance
Sebastian Mateiescu (University of Bucharest) - Science and Religion and the Myth of their Conflict
Mihai-Dragoș Vadana (New Europe College, Bucharest) - Pathways in Cartesian Philosophy
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