?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Newtonian+Emanation%2C+Spinozism%2C+Measurement%2C+and+the+Baconian+Origins+of+the+Laws+of+Nature&rft.creator=Schliesser%2C+Eric&rft.subject=History+of+Philosophy+of+Science&rft.subject=Laws+of+Nature&rft.subject=History+of+Science+Case+Studies&rft.description=This+paper+investigates+what+Newton+could+have+meant+in+a+now+famous+passage+from+De+Gravitatione+(hereafter+%E2%80%9CDeGrav%E2%80%9D)+that+%E2%80%9Cspace+is+as+it+were+an+emanative+effect+of+God%E2%80%9D+(21).+First+I+offer+a+careful+examination+of+the+four+key+passages+within+DeGrav+that+bear+on+this.+I+argue+that+the+logic+of+Newton%E2%80%99s+argument+permits+several+interpretations+(section+I).+Second+I+sketch+four+options%3A+i)+one+approach+associated+with+the+Cambridge+Platonist%2C+Thomas+More%2C+recently+investigated+by+Dana+Jalobeanu+and+Ed+Slowik%3B+ii)+one+traditional+neo-Platonic+approach%3B+iii)+a+necessitarian+approach+associated+with+Howard+Stein%E2%80%99s+interpretation%2C+recently+reaffirmed+by+Andrew+Janiak%3B+iv)+an+approach+connected+with+Bacon%E2%80%99s+efforts+to+reformulate+a+useful+notion+of+form+and+laws+of+nature.+Hitherto+only+the+first+and+third+options+have+received+scholarly+attention.+I+offer+arguments+to+treat+Newtonian+emanation+as+a+species+of+Baconian+formal+causation+and+in+this+way+to+combine+some+of+the+most+attractive+elements+of+the+first+three+options+(section+II).+Finally+in+Section+III%2C+I+suggest+that+the+recent+scholarly+focus+on+emanation+has+obscured+the+importance+of+Newton%E2%80%99s+very+interesting+claims+about+existence+and+measurement+in+the+same+passage(s).+&rft.date=2008&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=doc&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F4343%2F1%2FNewtonian_Emanation.doc&rft.identifier=Schliesser%2C+Eric+(2008)+Newtonian+Emanation%2C+Spinozism%2C+Measurement%2C+and+the+Baconian+Origins+of+the+Laws+of+Nature.+UNSPECIFIED.&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F4343%2