Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles
Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first principles. But pre-modern and early...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010 |
| Series: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Table of Contents:
- Philosophia, Historia, Mathematica: Shifting Sands in the Disciplinary Geography of the Seventeenth Century
- The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia
- Matter, Mortality, and the Changing Ideal of Science
- Scientia and Inductio Scientifica in the Logica Hamburgensis of Joachim Jungius
- Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes
- Scientia and Self-knowledge in Descartes
- Spinoza’s Theory of Scientia Intuitiva
- Scientia in Hobbes
- John Locke and the Limits of Scientia