Boyle on fire: the mechanical revolution in scientific explanation
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| adam_text | BOYLE ON FIRE
THE MECHANICAL REVOLUTION IN
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
WILLIAM R EATON
continuum
LONDON • NEWYORK
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 Boyle and the Philosophy of Science 3
Elemental theories and the scientific revolution 3
Occult explanations 6
The status of Boyle scholarship 11
Challenges to the tradition 15
2 On the Intelligibility of Mechanical Explanations 24
Boyle on the intelligibility of mechanical explanations 25
Historical views on the intelligibility of mechanical 52
explanations
Philosophical views on the intelligibility of mechanical 65
explanations
Sociological views on the intelligibility of mechanical 77
explanations
3 Boyle s Attack on Elemental Interpretations of Fire 87
Analysis
Philosophical targets of the Sceptical Chymist 87
The experiments 94
The objections 97
4 Boyle s Mechanical Theory of Heat and Fire 109
Against Aristotelian definitions 110
Heat as corpuscular agitation 112
Conditions for the mechanical production of heat 114
viii Contents
5 Boyle s Mechanical Epistemology 129
Reactions to Shapin and the social constructionists 129
The mechanical affections of matter 134
The mechanical affections of fire analysis 146
6 The Contrivance of Parts 152
Mechanism, structure, and arrangement 152
Boyle s use of contrivance 158
Mechanism, mathematics, and prediction 165
7 Mechanical Explanation in Contemporary Science 171
The machine analogy 172
Natural selection as mechanism 174
The mechanics of DNA 177
Continental drift as mechanism 179
The mechanics of spiral galaxy formation 182
Conclusion 189
Boyle s role in the scientific revolution 189
Mechanism, magnetism, and the mind/body problem 191
Robert Boyle chronology 194
Glossary of technical terms 195
Bibliography 198
Index 204
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