Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy (eBook)

Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

Tom Sorell, G.A. Rogers, Jill Kraye (Herausgeber)

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2009
139 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-90-481-3077-1 (ISBN)

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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 modern conceptions differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses of this difference by exploring the works of individual philosophers as well as philosophical movements and groupings of the period. Some of the figures are transitional, falling neatly on neither side of the allegiances usually marked by the scholastic/modern distinction. Among the philosophers whose views on scientia are surveyed are Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Gassendi, Locke, and Jungius. The contributors are among the best-known and most influential historians of early modern philosophy.

Inhalt

Contents 5
Introduction 6
Contributors 13
Philosophia, Historia, Mathematica: Shifting Sands in the Disciplinary Geography of the Seventeenth Century 14
Scientia, Mathematica and Historia ca. 1600 14
People and Places 20
What Happened in the Seventeenth Century? 24
The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia 31
Scientia and Its Critics 31
Contemplative Versus Practical Natural Philosophy 32
The Unity of Natural Philosophy 36
Reduction 38
What Cost Unification? 40
Conclusion 44
Matter, Mortality, and the Changing Ideal of Science 46
I Gassendi's Attack on Aristotelian Scientia 46
II Atomism and the Mortality of the Soul 48
III Mortalism: Epistemological Considerations 51
IV Boyle, Bentley and Layton on Thinking Matter 57
V Lockes Argument from Ignorance and his Ideas 58
VI The Science of Mere Corporeal Nature 61
Scientia and Inductio Scientifica in the Logica Hamburgensis of Joachim Jungius 63
Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes 81
I Scientia and Knowledge 82
II Two Conceptions of Science Reconciled 85
III Logic and a Logic of Science 88
IV Metaphysics and the Other Sciences 91
Scientia and Self-knowledge in Descartes 93
I Descartes and Scientia 94
II Scientia and the Mind: The Second Meditation 98
III Scientia and the Mind: Other Texts 103
IV The Possibility of a Scientia of Mind 105
Spinozas Theory of Scientia Intuitiva 108
The Nature of Scientia Intuitiva 110
Scientia Intuitiva and Other Kinds of Cognition 115
The Scope of Scientia Intuitiva 118
The Value of Scientia Intuitiva 121
References 123
Scientia in Hobbes 125
Hobbes on Knowledge and Its Types 126
Scientia, Signs, and Syllogisms 127
Scientia and Prudentia Distinguished 128
Scientia and Causes 129
The Scope of Scientia 132
References 134
John Locke and the Limits of Scientia 136
Index 144

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 139 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
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• Schlagworte: John Locke • Knowledge • Natural Philosophy • René Descartes • Spinoza
• ISBN-10: 90-481-3077-8 / 9048130778
• ISBN-13: 978-90-481-3077-1 / 9789048130771