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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Wilson, Fred,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Studies in Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (656 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Study One. Establishing the New Science: Rationalist and Empiricist Responses to Aristotle
  • Study Two. Logic under Attack: The Early Modern Period I
  • Study Three. Berkeley's Metaphysics and Ramist Logic
  • Study Four. Empiricist Inductive Methodology: Hobbes and Hume
  • Study Five. 'Rules by Which to Judge of Causes' before Hume
  • Study Six. Causation and the Argument A Priori for the Existence of a Necessary Being
  • Study Seven. Descartes's Defence of the Traditional Metaphysics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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