Dr. Filip Buyse [uit Aarschot, België, momenteel senior
visiting researcher (History of Science) aan de University of Oxford, faculteit
History, en Post-Doc aan Panthéon-Sorbonne, Philosophie aan de Université Paris
1 cf. academia.edu] liet me van de week weten dat hij net een boek heeft geredigeerd over de
slingerklok en de filosofie uit de 17de eeuw:
Buyse,
Filip (invited editor), Pendulum Clocks
in the Seventeenth Century Philosophy, Society and Politics, vol. 11, 2,
2017.
Je
vindt het in open access op de site van Society and Politics. Het komt ook uit in papieren
versie.
In
dit volume vind je 2 bijlagen over de filosofie van Spinoza:
• Buyse, Filip, Spinoza and Christiaan Huygens: The Odd
Philosopher and the Odd Sympathy of Pendulum Clocks. In: Buyse, Filip (invited editor), Pendulum Clocks in the Seventeenth Century
Philosophy, Society and Politics, vol. 11, 2, 2017, 115-138.
Abstract. In
1665, in a response to a question posed by Robert Boyle, Spinoza gave a
definition of the coherence between bodies in the universe that seems to be
inconsistent both with what he had written in a previous letter to Boyle (1661)
and with what he would later write in his main work, the Ethics (1677).
Specifically, Spinoza’s 1665 letter to Boyle asserts that bodies can adapt
themselves to another body in a non-mechanistic way and absent the agency of an
external cause. This letter – Letter 32 – seems therefore to be in clear
contradiction with the metaphysical determinism that is an important and
characteristic element of his philosophy. This article suggests that the
viewpoint expressed by Spinoza in Letter 32 may have been inspired by a
spectacular discovery made by Christiaan Huygens a few months prior, namely,
the self-synchronization of pendulum clocks. As I argue in this article, this
new, hypothesized link to Huygens’ pendulum experiments may account for
Spinoza’s otherwise paradoxical answer to Boyle in Letter 32. [cf. PDF]
• Rovere, Maxime, Oscillating affects: Spinoza’s models
for the confrontation and adaptation of opposite things. In: Buyse, Filip (invited editor), Pendulum Clocks in the Seventeenth Century
Philosophy, Society and Politics, vol. 11, 2, 2017,139-154.
Abstract.
Spinoza’s conception of “negativity: is generally approached under the angle of
his metaphysics. Relying instead on ethical considerations throughout his work,
this article proposes to identify a slight evolution in the philosopher’s
thought, especially between the Tractatus
de Intellectus Emendatione and the Ethica.
By showing that the first treatises are marked by a logician approach, and that
the last texts clearly rely on a physical and mechanical model, it states that
Spinoza, during the 1660s, might have undergone a change in his preferences as
to which science (logic or physics) he would rather rely on. In particular, it
suggests that the cinematic model, in the Ethics,
is a pattern that helps conceiving of the relation beween passions (especially
when they are contrary to the obtention of the real good) and the intellectual
love of God. [cf. PDF]
Filip
“dacht dat dit je misschien zou interesseren” en ik geef dit alles graag door
in de veronderstelling dat dit bezoekers van dit weblog zal interesseren.
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