TY - JOUR AB - Ruder Josip Boscovich (1711–1787), a philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. The greatest of the forgotten—as Barrow says. The author of the Theory of Everything, based on the presumption that the whole substance of this world is reducible to simple, homogeneous, discontinuous and invariable physical points. These points being the centers of forces of repulsion and attraction. His system of kinematic atomism constitutes a crucial stage in the development of physics and philosophy. The physical points combine both material and psychological features, therefore among commentators the prevailing view is that they possess rather a quasi-material nature. The following presentation, however, emphasizes their psychological aspect, especially in the light of Boscovich's fairly original attempt to reduce mental states and physical facts to one, common definition. This reduction is based on the presumption that the rules which govern both kinds of substance (bodies and minds) can be reduced to the one (and only one) Rule of All Forces. Hence, this rule concerns everything in the Universe. AU - Sytnik-Czetwertyński, Janusz DO - 10.5840/forphil200712128 KW - atomism; Boscovich, Ruder Josip; force & energy; philosophers; philosophy; physics – philosophy M1 - 1 M3 - Article N1 - Adamski, Adam. Galileusza filozofia i teologia nauki. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza, 2002. Ayer, A. J. “The a Priori.” In A Priori Knowledge, edited by Paul K. Moser. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Bacon, Francis. The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon. Edited by and John M. Robertson. Translated by James Spedding and Robert Leslie Ellis. London: Routledge, 1905. Boscovich, Roger Joseph. Theoria philosophiae naturalis. Latin–English Edition. Translated by James Mark Child. Chicago: Open Court, 1922. Conway, Aanne. Zasady filozofii najstarszej i najnowszej. Translated by Joanna Usakiewicz, Cracow: Aureus, 2002. Eliade, Mircea. Myth and Reality. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. Fraioli, Luca. Materia. Translated by Janusz Fekecz. Warsaw: Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, 2000. Freising, Wolfgang. Metaphysik und Vernunft: das Weltbild von Leibniz und Wolff. Lüneburg: Schmidt-Neubauer, 1986. Gill, Henry Vincent. Roger Boscovich S. J. (1711–1787): Forerunner of Modern Physical Theories. Dublin: Gill and Son, 1941. Macan, Ivan, ed. The Philosophy of Science of Ruđer Bošković Proceedings of the Symposium of the Inst. Philosophy and Theology, (Held in Zagreb, December 11–13, 1986. Zagreb: Institute of Philosophy and Theology, 1987. Malebranche, Nicolas de. Dialogi o metafizyce i religii. Dialogi o śmierci. Translated by Piotr Rak. Kęty: Antyk, 2003. Marković, Željko. Grada za z̆ivot i rad Rudz̆era Bos̆kovića. Zagreb: Juȯslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1950. Moser, Paul K., ed. A Priori Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pereboom, Derk. The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, eds. Źivot i ocjena djela Rugjera Josipa Bośkovića. Zagreb: Jugoslavenska Akademije Znanosti i Umiejetnosti, 1887–1888. Nyíri, János Kristóf, and Barry Smith, eds. Practical Knowledge: Outlines of a Theory of Traditions and Skills. London: Croom Helm, 1988. Rodis-Lewis, Geneviève. Kartezjusz i racjonalizm. Translated by Stanisław Cichowicz. Warsaw: Prószyński i S-ka, 2000. Roth, Leon, ed. Correspondence of Descartes and Constantyn Huygens, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926. Stróżewski, Władysław. Ontologia. Cracow: Aureus / Znak, 2004. White, Lancelot Law, ed. Roger Josip Boscovich S.J. (1711–1787): Studies of His Life and Work on the 250th Anniversary of His Birth. London: Allen and Unwin, 1961. Widomski, Jacek. Ontologia liczby: wybrane zagadnienia z ontologii liczby w starożytności i średniowieczu. Cracow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1996. Zabierowski, Mirosław. Wszechświat i metafizyka. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1998. Ziółkowski, Andrzej Michał. Filozofia René Descartes’a. Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, 1989. PY - 2007 SN - 1426-1898 (paper) 2353-7043 (online) SP - 139–155 ST - The Philosophical Foundations of the Kinematic Atomism of Ruder Josip Boscovich T2 - Forum Philosophicum TI - The Philosophical Foundations of the Kinematic Atomism of Ruder Josip Boscovich UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=25743297&lang=pl&site=ehost-live http://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=forphil&id=forphil_2007_0012_0001_0139_0155 VL - 12 ID - 154 ER -