The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought : Seven Studies.
A persuasive new argument and re-evaluation of the revolution in scientific thought in the 17th and 18th centuries by a senior academic in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of science.
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999. |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Philosophy
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY ONE: Establishing the New Science: Rationalist and Empiricist Responses to Aristotle -- I: New Science: New Methods -- 1) New Cognitive Aims -- 2) What's Wrong with the Old? -- II: Aristotelian Science: Aristotelian Methods -- 1) The Metaphysics of Explanation -- 2) The Logic of Explanation in Aristotle -- 3) Laws of Nature in Aristotle's Philosophy of Explanation -- 4) Our Knowledge of the Forms of Things -- III: Rationalist versus Empiricist Accounts of the New Science -- IV: The Downfall of Rationalist Accounts of the New Science -- 1) Disappearing Powers -- 2) Cartesian Ideas -- 3) Locke's Challenge to Aristotelianism and Rationalism -- 4) The Sceptical Response to the Rationalists: Huet -- 5) The Empirical Science of the Human Mind -- STUDY TWO: Logic under Attack: The Early Modern Period -- I: Traditional Logic -- 1) The Problem of Existential Import -- 2) The Distribution of Terms -- 3) The Ontological Basis of Traditional Logic -- II: The Logic of Consistency -- III: Rationalist and Empiricist Critiques of Syllogistic -- 1) Syllogistic -- 2) Demonstrative Syllogisms -- 3) The Cartesian Critique of Syllogistic -- 4) Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact -- 5) Our Knowledge of Necessary Connections -- 6) Method Made Empirical: (a) The Logic of Consistency -- 7) Method Made Empirical: (b) The Logic of Truth -- STUDY THREE: Berkeley's Metaphysics and Ramist Logic -- STUDY FOUR: Empiricist Inductive Methodology: Hobbes and Hume -- I: Hobbes's Baconian Induction -- II: Hobbes's Inductive Principles -- III: Hobbes's Account of Reason -- IV: Hobbes's Supposed Nominalism -- V: Hobbes's Account of Causal Necessity -- VI: Hobbes on the Logical Structure of Science -- VII: Hume's Account of Causal Necessity -- VIII: Correcting Hobbes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 -- I: The Argument A Priori for the Existence of God -- II: Abstract Ideas -- III: The (Abstract) Idea of Existence -- IV: Necessity -- V: Separating Events and Their Causes -- VI: Conceiving Things as Existent -- Conclusion -- STUDY SEVEN: Descartes's Defence of the Traditional Metaphysics -- I: Cartesian Scepticism: The Ontological Roots of the Demonic Challenge -- II: The Cogito of the Meditations: The Demonic Challenge -- III: The Method of Analysis: From the Meditator to the Deity by the Way of Ideas -- IV: God: The First Truth and the Foundation of All Knowledge -- V: Critical Reflections -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. | |
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