The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought : Seven Studies.

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 scient...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 1999.
Temas:
1600-1699
Science > Philosophy > History > 17th century.
Science > Methodology > History > 17th century.
Sciences > Méthodologie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Science > Methodology
Science > Philosophy
Empirisme.
Rationalisme.
Wissenschaftstheorie > Geschichte 17. Jh.
Naturwissenschaften > Methode > Geschichte 17. Jh.
Naturwissenschaften > Philosophie > Geschichte > 1600-1750.
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History
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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