Written in the flesh: Isaac Newton on the mind-body relation

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 420-441

  Dempsey, Liam ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Isaac newton; John locke; Mental causation; Monism; Mortalism; Ren descartes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747856434     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3968, sec. 41, fol. 26. (Cited in Cohen, 1999, p. 281.)
2. Geneva, Fondation Martin Bodmer, MS 5A, fol. 8v. (Cited in Snobelen, 2004, p. 163.)
3. Jerusalem, Jewish National and University Library, MS Yahuda 7.2e.
4. ** N563M3 P222, fol. 55r. (Cited in Snobelen, 2004, p. 164.)
5. Private collection, Sotheby's Lot 232, New york, 3 December 2004, fol. 2r. (Cited in Snobelen, 2005, p. 264.)
6. Aristotle (1984). The complete works of Aristotle: A revised Oxford translation (J. Barnes Ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
7. Bennett J. Locke's philosophy of mind. In: Chappell V. (Ed). The Cambridge companion to Locke (1994), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 89-114
8. Boyle, R. (1966). The works of the honourable Robert Boyle, Vol. IV (T. Birch Ed.). Hildesheim: Olms. (Facsimile reprint of 2nd ed., London, 1772).
9. Burns N.T. Christian mortalism from Milton to Tyndale (1972), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
10. Cohen, I. B. (1999). Guide to Newton's Principia. In I. Newton, The Principia: Mathematical principles of natural philosophy (I. B. Cohen, & A. Whitman, Eds. & Trans.) (pp. 11-370). Berkeley: University of California Press.
11. In: Cohen I.B., and Westfall R.S. (Eds). Newton (1995), W.W. Norton, New York
12. In: Cottingham J. (Ed). Descartes (1986), Blackwell, Oxford
13. Descartes, R. (1912). The principles of philosophy (J. Veitch, Ed.). London: Everyman's Library. (First published 1644)
14. Disalle R. Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time. In: Cohen I.B., and Smith G.E. (Eds). The Cambridge companion to Newton (2002), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 33-56
15. Force J.E. The God of Abraham and Isaac (Newton). In: Force J.E., and Popkin R.H. (Eds). The books of nature and scripture (1994), Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht 179-200
16. Force J.E. 'Children of the resurrection' and 'children of the dust': Confronting mortality and immortality with Newton and Hume. In: Force J.E., and Katz D.S. (Eds). Everything connects:In conference with Richard H. Popkin: Essays in his honor (1999), Brill, Leiden 119-142
17. Force J.E. Providence and Newton's Pantokrator: Natural law, miracles, and Newtonian science. In: Force J.E., and Hutton S. (Eds). Newton and Newtonianism: New studies (2004), Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht 65-92
18. Gabbey A. Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy. In: Cohen I.B., and Smith G.E. (Eds). The Cambridge companion to Newton (2002), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 329-357
19. Glanvill, J., 1668. A blow at modern Sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft. To which is added, the relation of the fam'd disturbance by the drummer; in the house of Mr. John Mompesson: with some reflections on drollery, and atheism. By a member of the Royal Society. London.
20. Henry J. 'Pray do not ascribe that notion to me': God and Newton's gravity. In: Force J.E., and Popkin R.H. (Eds). The books of Nature and Scripture (1994), Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht 123-147
21. Hobbes, T. (1994). Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 (E. Curley, Ed.). Indianapolis: Hackett. (First published 1651)
22. In: Janiak A. (Ed). Isaac Newton: Philosophical writings (2004), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
23. Leibniz, G. (1875-1890). Die philosophishen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (7 vols.) (C. J. Gerhardt, Ed.). Berlin.
24. Locke, J. (1858). Extracts from his journal, April 20, 1682. In Lord King (Ed.), Life and letters of John Locke (pp. 128-130). London: H.G. Bohn.
25. Locke, J. (1894). An essay concerning human understanding (2 vols.) (A. C. Fraser, Ed.). New York: Dover. (4th ed., first published 1700).
26. Locke, J. (1999). The reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures (J. C. Higgins-Biddle, Ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. (2nd ed., first published 1696).
27. Marshall J. Locke, Socinianism, 'Socinianism', and Unitarianism. In: Stewart M.A. (Ed). English Philosophy in the age of Locke (2000), Oxford University Press, New York 111-182
28. In: McGuire J.E., and Tamny M. (Eds). Certain philosophical questions: Newton's Trinity notebooks (1983), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
29. Mede, J. (1641). Apostasy of the latter times. London.
30. More, H. (1978a). The immortality of the soul. In idem, A collection of several philosophical writings (Vol. II, pp. 15-234). New York: Garland. (First published 1659).
31. More, H. (1978b). Antidote against atheism. In idem, A collection of several philosophical writings (Vol. I, pp. 2-190). New York: Garland. (First published 1653).
32. More L.T. Isaac Newton: A biography (1934), C. Scribner's Sons, New York
33. Newton I. Letter to William Briggs. In: Edleston J. (Ed). Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes, including letters of other prominent men (1850), J. W. Parker, London 265-269
34. Newton I. Opticks: A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light (1952), Dover, New York (4th ed., first published 1730)
35. Newton I. Letters to Richard Bentley. In: Thayer H.S. (Ed). Newton's philosophy of nature: Selections from his writings (1953), Hafner, New York 50-58
36. Newton I. Letter to Henry Oldenburg. In: Thayer H.S. (Ed). Newton's philosophy of nature: Selections from his writings (1953), Hafner, New York 82-99
37. Newton, I. (1961). The correspondence of Isaac Newton, Vol. III (H. W. Turnbull Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
38. Newton, I. (1999). The Principia: Mathematical principles of natural philosophy: A new translation and guide (I. B. Cohen, & A. Whitman, Eds. & Trans.) Berkeley: University of California Press. (3rd ed., first published 1726)
39. Newton, I. (2004a). De gravitatione. In A. Janiak (Ed.), Isaac Newton: Philosophical writings (pp. 12-39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Newton I. Letter to the editor of the Memoirs of Literature. In: Janiak A. (Ed). Isaac Newton: Philosophical writings (2004), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 114-117
41. Newton I. The account of the book entitled Commercium epistolicum. In: Janiak A. (Ed). Isaac Newton: Philosophical writings (2004), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 223-226 (First published 1715)
42. Overton, R. (1968). Mans mortalitie (H. Fisch, Ed.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. (First published 1644).
43. Priestley J. Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit (1975), Arno Press, New York (First published 1777)
44. Smolinski R. The logic of millennial thought: Sir Isaac Newton among his contemporaries. In: Force J.E., and Popkin R.H. (Eds). Newton and religion: Context, nature, and influence (1999), Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht 259-290
45. Snobelen S.D. Socinianism, heresy and John Locke's Reasonableness of Christianity. Enlightenment and Dissent 20 (2001) 88-125
46. Snobelen S.D. Lust, pride and ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil. In: Force J.E., and Hutton S. (Eds). Newton and Newtonianism (2004), Kluwer Academic, Netherlands 162-164
47. Snobelen, S. D. (2005). Isaac Newton, Socinianism and 'the one supreme God'. In J. Rohls, & M. Mulsow (Eds.), Socinianism and cultural exchange: The European dimension of Antitrinitarian and Arminian networks, 1650-1720 (pp. 241-298).
48. Stein H. Newton's metaphysics. In: Cohen I.B., and Smith G.E. (Eds). The Cambridge companion to Newton (2002), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 256-307
49. In: Thayer H.S. (Ed). Newton's philosophy of nature: selections from his writings (1953), Hafner, New York
50. Westfall R.S. Never at rest: A biography of Isaac Newton (1981), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge