Mary Domski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Domski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Domski |
| SIGNATURE | DOMSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3226-5970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imagination, metaphysics, mathematics
Kant and Newton on the a priori necessity of geometry
Kant on the Imagination and Geometrical Certainty
In what follows, I aim to develop our understanding of the role the imagination plays in Kant's Critical account of geometry and suggest, in particular, that the peculiar interpretation of the imagination that Kant forwards in the First Critique helps secure the certainty of geometrical knowledge. To make my case, I first consider the account of geometrical reasoning Kant presents in his 1764 Prize Essay, a text in which geometrical certainty is …
Newton's Empiricism and Metaphysics
Commentators attempting to understand the empirical method that Isaac Newton applies in his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) are forced to grapple with the thorny issue of how to reconcile Newton’s rejection of hypotheses with his appeal to absolute space. On the one hand, Newton claims that his experimental philosophy does not rely on claims that are assumed without empirical evidence, and on the other hand, Newton appeals to…
Newton as Philosopher
590 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009) 555-598 Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. lv+196, $90 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 521 86286 8. Historians of philosophy have become increasingly cautious about using the labels ‘rationalism’ and ‘empiricism’ to describe trends in seventeenth and early eighteenth century thought. Such locutions may be helpful heuristic devices (when, for instance,…
The intelligibility of motion and construction
The Constructible and the Intelligible in Newton's Philosophy of Geometry
In the preface to the Principia (1687) Newton famously states that “geometry is founded on mechanical practice.” Several commentators have taken this and similar remarks as an indication that Newton was firmly situated in the constructivist tradition of geometry that was prevalent in the seventeenth century. By drawing on a selection of Newton's unpublished texts, I hope to show the faults of such an interpretation. In these texts, Newton not onl…
The intelligibility of motion and construction
The Constructible and the Intelligible in Newton's Philosophy of Geometry
In the preface to the Principia (1687) Newton famously states that “geometry is founded on mechanical practice.” Several commentators have taken this and similar remarks as an indication that Newton was firmly situated in the constructivist tradition of geometry that was prevalent in the seventeenth century. By drawing on a selection of Newton's unpublished texts, I hope to show the faults of such an interpretation. In these texts, Newton not onl…
Kant on the Imagination and Geometrical Certainty
In what follows, I aim to develop our understanding of the role the imagination plays in Kant's Critical account of geometry and suggest, in particular, that the peculiar interpretation of the imagination that Kant forwards in the First Critique helps secure the certainty of geometrical knowledge. To make my case, I first consider the account of geometrical reasoning Kant presents in his 1764 Prize Essay, a text in which geometrical certainty is …
Newton's Empiricism and Metaphysics
Commentators attempting to understand the empirical method that Isaac Newton applies in his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) are forced to grapple with the thorny issue of how to reconcile Newton’s rejection of hypotheses with his appeal to absolute space. On the one hand, Newton claims that his experimental philosophy does not rely on claims that are assumed without empirical evidence, and on the other hand, Newton appeals to…
The Constructible and the Intelligible in Newton's Philosophy of Geometry
In the preface to the Principia (1687) Newton famously states that “geometry is founded on mechanical practice.” Several commentators have taken this and similar remarks as an indication that Newton was firmly situated in the constructivist tradition of geometry that was prevalent in the seventeenth century. By drawing on a selection of Newton's unpublished texts, I hope to show the faults of such an interpretation. In these texts, Newton not onl…
Newton as Philosopher
590 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009) 555-598 Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. lv+196, $90 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 521 86286 8. Historians of philosophy have become increasingly cautious about using the labels ‘rationalism’ and ‘empiricism’ to describe trends in seventeenth and early eighteenth century thought. Such locutions may be helpful heuristic devices (when, for instance,…
The intelligibility of motion and construction
Kant on the Imagination and Geometrical Certainty
In what follows, I aim to develop our understanding of the role the imagination plays in Kant's Critical account of geometry and suggest, in particular, that the peculiar interpretation of the imagination that Kant forwards in the First Critique helps secure the certainty of geometrical knowledge. To make my case, I first consider the account of geometrical reasoning Kant presents in his 1764 Prize Essay, a text in which geometrical certainty is …
Newton's Empiricism and Metaphysics
Commentators attempting to understand the empirical method that Isaac Newton applies in his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) are forced to grapple with the thorny issue of how to reconcile Newton’s rejection of hypotheses with his appeal to absolute space. On the one hand, Newton claims that his experimental philosophy does not rely on claims that are assumed without empirical evidence, and on the other hand, Newton appeals to…
Kant and Newton on the a priori necessity of geometry
Imagination, metaphysics, mathematics
Epistemology (7 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Geometry (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)