Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles / edited by Tom Sorell, G.A. Rogers, Jill Kraye.

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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Other Authors: Sorell, Tom (Editor), Rogers, G.A (Editor), Kraye, Jill (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Series:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 24
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Philosophy.
History.
Modern philosophy.
Cultural heritage.
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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.

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