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...C. Allen Speight Songsuk Susan Hahn. Contradiction in Motion: Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. xv + 220 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life...

...Jacob Rosen Two main conceptual developments were required for the Greeks to achieve a scientific understanding of motion. First, they needed a coherent conception of nonbeing: if something moves then it is not somewhere at one time where it i s at another time; and Parmenides showed...

... and assessments of countless source materials. All this erudition is put to the service of offering detailed interpretations of Leibniz’s challenging theories of time, space, and motion. Arthur’s performance is a lifetime in the making, and his Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity is certain to be essential...

... Descartes Philosophers , which thought to reason well, Say, Light , and Colour , in the Braine do dwell; That Motion in the Braine doth Light beget, And if no Braine , the World in darknesse Shut. Provided that the Braine hath Eyes to see, So Eyes , and Braine , do make...

... 1668 to 1671. In various texts she finds evidence that Leibniz regarded the Cartesian view of bodily substance as res extensa unsatisfying both philosophically and theologically. As she shows, Leibniz persistently argued that since extension was insufficient to account for motion, something...

... change involves an object instantiating different properties at different times, where the relation of instantiation is relativized to these different times: the so-called “adverbalism” developed by Haslanger, Johnston, and others. And while acknowledging the “robust phenomenology” (117) of motion...

... qualities, called sensible, are in the object, that causeth them, but so many several mo- tions of the matter, by which it presseth our organs diversely. Neither in us that are pressed, are they any thing else, but divers motions; for motion produceth nothing but motion...

... University Press. Garber, Daniel. 1982 . “Motion and Metaphysics in the Young Leibniz.” In Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays , ed. Michael Hooker, 160 –84. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ———. 1985 . “Leibniz and the Foundations of Physics: The Middle Years.” In The Natural...

... intrinsic ability to bring about change. Leibniz distinguishes between two kinds of active force. The first is what Leibniz terms “living force” or vis viva . A body's living force corresponds to its ability to bring about change in virtue of its motion. A fast-moving baseball, for example, will have more...

... or inexplicable; they are (4) stirred up by motions in the body but (5) do not resemble any bodily motions and (6) do not represent anything bodily. The first five features are relatively straightforward. First, sensa- tions are simple in the sense that they are the fundamental mental building blocks...

... of the mechanical laws of motion, the equality of inertial and gravitational mass, and the universally penetrating character of gravitational force in this procedure. And it is for precisely this reason that Kant builds all three into the characteristically dynamical concept of matter that he articulates...

... Descartes addresses the many grave explanatory challenges faced by his radical physiology: chapter 1 takes on the general issue of self-motion, while chapter 2 considers various physiological processes involved in the main- tenance and perpetuation of life, including the vexing question of where those...

... as it is matter, and independent of the special organization conferred on it by the motions holding its parts together. In this sense, a stone, or a separated hand must be qualified as substances ; and certainly the quantity of matter of which they are formed never perishes , no more than the total quantity...

... the claim that the epistemic judgment is entailed by the epistemic system accepted by the subject. This differs importantly from more familiar relationalist claims about, say, the relational character of motion or of the perceived location of a rainbow. Indeed, epistemic relationalism, as Boghossian...

... In Space. Analysis 50 : 62 -65. Broad, C. D. 1933 . Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carroll, John. 1994 . Laws of Nature . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carroll, John. 2002 . Instantaneous Motion. Philosophical Studies 110 : 49...

..., Figure, and Motion of the parts of Fire, or Snow, are really in them, whether any ones Senses perceive them or no: and there- fore they may be called real Qualities, because they really exist in those Bodies. But Light, Heat, Whiteness, or Coldness, are no more really in them, than...

... discussions, Leibniz asserts that the Cartesian interactionist solution to the mind-body problem was made possible by a failure to correctly formulate physical conservation laws. According to Cartesian physics, God “by his regular concurrence, preserves the same amount of motion and rest in the material...

... and Human Action in Spinoza The next move in Bennett’s argument is to claim that, for Spinoza, only size, shape, and motion are relevant to the causal powers of a body. Size, shape, and motion are intrinsic properties. This is supposed to be implied by Spinoza’s commitment to the mechanical...

.... Toppino . 2004 . “ Enduring Interest in Perceptual Ambiguity: Alternating Views of Reversible Figures .” Psychological Bulletin 130 , no. 5 : 748 – 68 . Lu, Zhong-Lin, and George Sperling . 2001 . “ Three-Systems Theory of Human Visual Motion Perception: Review and Update .” Journal...

.... Successful perception is necessarily of particulars that can cause perceptual states. It would make no sense to take perception to be of attributes in the abstract. In experiments that show an individual discrim- inating a three-dimensional body from a surround and tracking it over time—perhaps in motion...