The Idea of Nature

in the

History of Western Philosophy

   

What is Nature? What is Science?

  

Part I - Greek Cosmology

 

Part II -  Renaissance View of Nature

 

Part III - The Modern View of Nature

 

Collingwood's Content Outline

 

 Bibliography

 

The Parmenides and The Timaeus

 by Plato

 

Metaphysics

 by Aristotle

 

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

by Immanuel Kant, 1783

A revision of the Carus translation

with an introduction by Lewis White Beck, 1950

About Science: The method is analytical,

i.e., they begin with experience

 and regress upon its a priori presuppositions

 or principles without which it would not be possible

 to have that kind of experience.

 

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

Translated by Norman Kemp Smith, 1965

About Science: The method is synthetic,

i.e., it begins with principles

 and thence proceed to the experiences

which they organize, govern, and render intelligible.

 

A Commentary

To

Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

By Norman Kemp Smith, 1918/1992/99

 

Kant's Transcendental Idealism

An Interpreation and Defense

By Henery E. Allison, 2004

 

 Science for the Citizen

by Lancelot Hogben, 1938

 

An Essay on Metaphysics

by R. G. Collingwood, 1940

Revised edition with an Introduction and additional material

edited by Rex Martin, 1998

 

The Idea Of Nature

by R. G. Collingwood, 1945

 

The Concept of Nature

by Alfred North Whitehead, 1919

Science and the Modern World

by Alfred North Whitehead, 1925

Process and Reality

by Alfred North Whitehead, 1927/28

 

 The Common Sense of Science

by J. Bronowski, 1951

 Science and Human Values

by J. Bronowski, 1956

 The Identity of Man

by  J. Bronowski, 1965

 Nature and Knowledge:

 The Philosophy of Contemporary Science

by J. Bronowski, 1969

 The Assent of Man

by J. Bronowski, 1973

 A Sense of the Future

by J. Bronowski,, 1977

 

Philosophy of Science:

Readings selected, edited, and introduced

by Arthur Danto and Sidney Morgenbesser, 1960

 

Biography of Physics

by George Gamow, 1961

 

Science in the Making

by Joel H. Hildebrand, 1962

 

The World of Elementary Particles

by Kenneth W. Ford, 1963

 

Science and Education

by Thomas Huxley, 1964

 

The Crime of Galileo

by Giorgio De Santillana, 1965

 

A History of Western Philosophy

I. The Classical Mind

 Second Edition by W. T. Jones, 1969

 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970

 

The Cosmic Code:

Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

 by Heinz R. Pagels, 1984

 

A Brief History of Time:

 From the Big Bang to Black Holes

by Stephen W. Hawking, 1988

 

The Elegant Universe

by Brian Greene, 1999

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: 10/19/22