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

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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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Author / Creator: Wilson, Fred.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Series:Toronto Studies in Philosophy
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy > History > 17th century.
Science > Methodology > History > 17th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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
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