?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Kant's+dynamical+theory+of+matter+in+1755%2C+and+its+debt+to+speculative+Newtonian+experimentalism&rft.creator=Massimi%2C+Michela&rft.subject=History+of+Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=This+paper+explores+the+scientific+sources+behind+Kant%E2%80%99s+early+dynamical+theory+of+matter+in+1755%2C+with+a+focus+on+two+main+Kant%E2%80%99s+writings%3A+Universal+Natural+History+and+Theory+of+the+Heavens+and+On+Fire.+The+year+1755+has+often+been+portrayed+by+Kantian+scholars+as+a+turning+point+in+the+intellectual+career+of+the+young+Kant%2C+with+his+much+debated+conversion+to+Newton.+Via+a+careful+analysis+of+some+salient+themes+in+the+two+aforementioned+works%2C+and+a+reconstruction+of+the+scientific+sources+behind+them%2C+this+paper+shows+Kant%E2%80%99s+debt+to+an+often+overlooked+scientific+tradition%2C+i.e.+speculative+Newtonian+experimentalism.+The+paper+argues+that+more+than+the+Principia%2C+it+was+the+speculative+experimentalism+that+goes+from+Newton%E2%80%99s+Opticks+to+Herman+Boerhaave%E2%80%99s+Elementa+chemiae+via+Stephen+Hales%E2%80%99+Vegetable+Staticks+that+played+a+central+role+in+the+elaboration+of+Kant%E2%80%99s+early+dynamical+theory+of+matter+in+1755.+++&rft.date=2009-09&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F8507%2F1%2FKant's_dynamical_theory_of_matter_1755%252DSHPS%252Dfinal.pdf&rft.identifier=Massimi%2C+Michela+(2009)+Kant's+dynamical+theory+of+matter+in+1755%2C+and+its+debt+to+speculative+Newtonian+experimentalism.+[Preprint]&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F8507%2