Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz’s Dynamics

Tho, Tzu Chien

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“…We should not presume that Newton somehow had the last word on this matter, though. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who had learned the new developments within the science of mechanics directly from Huygens, is the most obvious contrast case (Duchesneau, 1994;Tho, 2017). The mathematical science of mechanics had introduced a strikingly new delineation of what constituted a physical system, but there could be vehement disagreement about how to make this the starting point for more overarching philosophical projects.…”

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Mechanical Philosophy: Science of Mechanics

Dyck

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Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

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Mechanical Philosophy: Science of Mechanics

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“…6-14; Iltis 1970b; Gale 1970; Gale 1973; Most 1984; Garber 1985; Hacking 1985; Gale 1988; Duchesneau 1994; Garber 2009, esp. 99-179; Fichant 2016; Tho 2017a; Tho 2017b.…”

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Ruggiero Boscovich and “the Forces Existing in Nature”

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2017

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Argument According to a long-standing interpretation which traces back to Max Jammer's Concepts of Force (1957), Ruggiero G. Boscovich would have developed a concept of force in the tradition of Leibniz's dynamics. In his variation on the theme, basic properties of matter such as solidity or impenetrability would be derived from an interplay of some "active" force of attraction and repulsion that any primary element of nature ("point of matter" in Boscovich's theory) would possess. In the present paper I discuss many flaws of this interpretation and argue for an alternative point of view, according to which the crucial aspect in the development of Boscovich's natural philosophy is his early definition of forces as "mathematical determinations" to have a certain state of motion. This is consistent with a Newtonian background and has as its epistemological consequence a certain agnosticism about the nature of forces and a "mathematical neutralism" (mathematics as a neutral tool, allowing for a plurality of interpretations).

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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