The Problem of the Unity of the Sciences : : Bacon to Kant /

The Problem of the Unity of the Sciences : : Bacon to Kant / / Robert McRae.

The author has taken an important subject, one which has pervaded the thinking of scientists, philosophers, and historians, and with impeccable scholarship and great clarity has concerned himself with a specific aspect of it: the way in which the determination of how the unity of the sciences is to...

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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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McRae, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©1961
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (148 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. THE IDEAL OF UNITY
  • II. BACON: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, THE GREAT MOTHER OF THE SCIENCES
  • III. DESCARTES: THE PROJECT OF A UNIVERSAL SCIENCE
  • IV. LEIBNIZ: THE DEMONSTRATIVE ENCYCLOPAEDIA
  • V. CONDILLAC: THE ABRIDGEMENT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE IN “THE SAME IS THE SAME”
  • VI. DIDEROT AND D’ALEMBERT: THE ASSAULT ON “L’ESPRIT DE SYSTÈME”
  • VII. KANT: THE “CONCEPTUS COSMICUS” OF PHILOSOPHY
  • Appendix. Descartes on Metaphysics as Science of the Principles of Knowledge
  • Index

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