The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought : Seven Studies.
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 scient...
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University of Toronto Press
1999
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
