La reconstrucción de la física cartesiana de Edward Slowik: aciertos y dificultades

Abstract

In this paper my depart point is the reconstruction of Cartesian physics that Edward Slowik presents in his book: “Cartesian Space Time” (2002). My aim is to analyze some questions that Slowik proposes with respect to the movement and the problems that it entails for the Cartesian version of physics. I concentrate myself in two questions that Newton considers without solution within Cartesian natural philosophy and that Edward Slowick intend to solve following some proposals and theoretical frameworks of contemporary physics. I will consider concretely the problem of relative movement and the movement in the plenum. I want to mention that the proposal of Slowik is much more comprehensive because he wants to give us a consistent version of Cartesian physics; nonetheless I think that the problems I deal with are enough representative of the importance of Cartesian physics for the history of modern science.