The logic and methodology of science in early modern thought : seven studies / / Fred Wilson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807739903321
• Autore: Wilson Fred <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-282-02861-8; 9786612028618; 1-4426-8165-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (633 p.)
• Collana: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetti: Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century; Science - Methodology - History - 17th century; Livres numeriques.; History; e-books.; Electronic books.
• 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: Establishing the New Science: Rationalist and Empiricist Responses to Aristotle -- New Science: New Methods -- The New Cognitive Aims -- The Cognitive Ends of the New Science -- The Method of the New Science -- The Starting Point of the Method -- What's Wrong with the Old? -- Aristotelian Science: Aristotelian Methods -- The Metaphysics of Explanation -- The Logic of Explanation in Aristotle -- Laws of Nature in Aristotle's Philosophy of Explanation -- Our Knowledge of the Forms of Things -- Rationalist versus Empiricist Accounts of the New Science -- The Downfall of Rationalist Accounts of the New Science -- Disappearing Powers -- Cartesian Ideas -- Locke's Challenge to Aristotelianism and Rationalism -- The Seeptical Response to the Rationalists: Huet -- The Empirical Science of the Human Mind -- Logic under Attack: The Early Modern Period -- Traditional Logic -- The Problem of Existential Import -- The Distribution of Terms -- The ; Ontological Basis of Traditional Logic -- The Logic of Consistency -- Rationalist and Empiricist Critiques of Syllogistic -- Syllogistic -- Demonstrative Syllogisms -- The Cartesian Critique of Syllogistic -- Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact -- Our Knowledge of Necessary Connections -- Method Made Empirical: (a) The Logic of Consistency -- Method Made Empirical: (b) The Logic of Truth -- Berkeley's Metaphysics and Ramist Logic -- Empiricist Inductive Methodology: Hobbes and Hume -- Hobbes's Baconian Induction -- Hobbes's Inductive Principles -- Hobbes's Account of Reason.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 scientific revolution and its significance, and explores the goals and directions of the new science according to the differing interpretations of rationalist and empiricist thinkers."--BOOK JACKET.