Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic
philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the …

In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich
explication of Newton's methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown …

This book focuses on the unity, diversity, and centrality of the notion of law as it is employed
in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Eric Watkins argues that, by thinking through a …

This classic book, now in a second, expanded edition, is an invitation to think along with
major theologians and spiritual authors, men and women from the time of St Augustine to the …

This paper draws attention to the crucial importance of a new kind of precisely defined law of
nature in the Scientific Revolution. All explanations in the mechanical philosophy depend …

A longstanding question at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology is how God
might act, or not, when governing the universe. Many believe that determinism would …

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as
forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance …

In this important volume, Joost Hengstmengel examines the doctrine of divine providence
and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth …

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses
metaphors from law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and …

According to a long-standing narrative of Western modernity science is one of the main
drivers of secularization. Science is said to have generated challenges to core religious …