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1 online resource (656 pages) |
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Establishing the New Science: Rationalist and Empiricist Responses to Aristotle -- New Science: New Methods -- The New Cognitive Aims -- The Cognitive Ends of the New Science -- The Method of the New Science -- The Starting Point of the Method -- What's Wrong with the Old? -- Aristotelian Science: Aristotelian Methods -- The Metaphysics of Explanation -- The Logic of Explanation in Aristotle -- Laws of Nature in Aristotle's Philosophy of Explanation -- Our Knowledge of the Forms of Things -- Rationalist versus Empiricist Accounts of the New Science -- The Downfall of Rationalist Accounts of the New Science -- Disappearing Powers -- Cartesian Ideas -- Locke's Challenge to Aristotelianism and Rationalism -- The Seeptical Response to the Rationalists: Huet -- The Empirical Science of the Human Mind -- Logic under Attack: The Early Modern Period -- Traditional Logic -- The Problem of Existential Import -- The Distribution of Terms -- The Ontological Basis of Traditional Logic -- The Logic of Consistency -- Rationalist and Empiricist Critiques of Syllogistic -- Syllogistic -- Demonstrative Syllogisms -- The Cartesian Critique of Syllogistic -- Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact -- Our Knowledge of Necessary Connections -- Method Made Empirical: (a) The Logic of Consistency -- Method Made Empirical: (b) The Logic of Truth -- Berkeley's Metaphysics and Ramist Logic -- Empiricist Inductive Methodology: Hobbes and Hume -- Hobbes's Baconian Induction -- Hobbes's Inductive Principles -- Hobbes's Account of Reason |
| Summary |
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Aristotelian notions of logic and causation came under serious attack. Traditional philosophy speaks of this period as marking a revolution in scientific thought. In this book Fred Wilson reinstates and extends the traditional conception of the scientific revolution and its significance, and explores the goals and directions of the new science according to the differing interpretations of rationalist and empiricist thinkers. Wilson argues for an empiricist approach to scientific method and explanation, and defends an empiricist as opposed to an Aristotelian account of logic. Calling on an impressive range of intellectual history, he gives a sympathetic account of the earlier Aristotelian philosophy, including such topics as the role of God in explanations, and then proceeds to examine the evolution of the empiricist account of science through a number of early modern figures: Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Berkeley, and Hume. He shows that the new science was characterized not just by its methodology and the kinds of explanations it engendered, but also by a new epistemology and a new understanding of being. A skilled and widely published author in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of science, Wilson brings persuasive new argument and detail to his re-evaluation of this important subject |
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Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
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Science -- Methodology -- History -- 17th century
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Science -- Methodology
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Science -- Philosophy
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Empirisme.
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Rationalisme.
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Wissenschaftstheorie -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
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Naturwissenschaften -- Methode -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
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Naturwissenschaften -- Philosophie -- Geschichte -- 1600-1750.
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e-books.
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History
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1282028618 |
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9781282028616 |
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