id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_aky4pllozzawhkthr444bxy32y John Lamont Fall and Rise of Aristotelian Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Science 2007 24 .pdf application/pdf 14942 1123 57 powers that are associated with things of a given kind, and laws of nature, in science, exist or be understood independently of objects with causal powers.) Support for the neoAristotelian position comes from two sources; a new understanding of the history of Duhem's importance as a support for the neo-Aristotelian position lies in his revolutionising of the history of science, a revolution that rehabilitated the scientific importance science who followed Duhem and reacted against him, were both inclined towards scientific realism, and both of them held that abandonment of an Aristotelian metaphysics was An opponent of the neoAristotelian view might point out that in fact the great scientific advances of the seventeenth century were accompanied by the abandonment of Aristotelian metaphysics, and ask The difficulty of giving such explanations may explain a common objection to Aristotelianism made on the seventeenth century, to the effect that, as Newton said, it postulates ./cache/work_aky4pllozzawhkthr444bxy32y.pdf ./txt/work_aky4pllozzawhkthr444bxy32y.txt