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Plato's philosophy of science /
In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world. He demonstrates that many of the common charges against Plato - disinterest, ignorance, dismissal of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duckworth,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world. He demonstrates that many of the common charges against Plato - disinterest, ignorance, dismissal of observation - are unfounded, and shows instead that Plato had a series of important and cogent criticisms to make of the early atomists and other physiologoi. Plato's views on science, and on astronomy and cosmology in particular, are shown to have developed in interesting ways. Thus, the book argues, Plato c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-324) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472502377 147250237X 9781472597854 1472597850 9781472502384 1472502388 |