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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438062703321

Autore

Sgarbi Marco

Titolo

The Aristotelian tradition and the rise of British empiricism : logic and epistemology in the British Isles (1570-1689) / / Marco Sgarbi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-69811-0

94-007-4951-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Studies in history and philosophy of science, , 0929-6425 ; ; v. 22

Disciplina

146.44094109032

Soggetti

Philosophy, British - 16th century

Philosophy, British - 17th century

Empiricism

Empiricism - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Logic in the British Isles during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 3 Logic in the Universities of the British Isles -- 4 Zabarella’s Empiricism 5 Early Aristotelianism between Humanism and Ramism -- the British School 7 Continental Aristotelians in the British Isles -- 8 The Empiricism of the Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 9. The Reformers of Aristotelian Logic -- 10 Late Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography.-Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a radical reappraisal of the importance of Aristotelianism in Britain. Using a full range of manuscripts as well as printed sources, it provides an entirely new interpretation of the impact of the early-modern Aristotelian tradition upon the rise of British Empiricism, and reexamines the fundamental shift from a humanist logic to epistemology and facultative logic. The task is to reconstruct the philosophical background and framework in which the thought of philosophers such Locke, Berkeley and Hume originated: some aspects of their empiricism can be explained only in reference to the academic Aristotelian tradition, even if these authors established themselves as anti-scholastic, anti-Aristotelian philosophers outside the official



institutions.