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Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 24)

Editors: Sorell, Tom; Rogers, G.A.; Kraye, Jill

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3077-1

ISBN: 978-90-481-3076-4

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Sep 28, 2009

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Philosophia, Historia, Mathematica: Shifting Sands in the Disciplinary Geography of the Seventeenth Century

Garber, Daniel

Pages: 1 –17

[Something very important happened in our knowledge of the physical world in the seventeenth century. A number of very smart people made discoveries about the natural world that fundamentally changed our way of looking at things. But as important as the individual accomplishments of individual...
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Chapter 2The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia

Gaukroger, Stephen

Pages: 19 –33

[The dominant model of the unity of natural philosophy in the Middle Ages, namely scientia, collapsed in the early modern era, and the unity of natural philosophy was rethought in the seventeenth century in terms of a reductionist and foundationalist notion of common causation. I want to argue...
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Chapter 3Matter, Mortality, and the Changing Ideal of Science

Wilson, Catherine

Pages: 35 –51

[“Nihil sciatur” said Gassendi, echoing the sixteenth century sceptics Michel Montaigne and Francisco Sanchez, and he proceeded to attack, in his unfinished Exercitationes of 1624, the edifice of Aristotelian physics, metaphysics, theory of the soul, and teachings on generation and corruption.]
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Chapter 4Scientia and Inductio Scientifica in the Logica Hamburgensis of Joachim Jungius

Clucas, Stephen

Pages: 53 –70

[In a recent article which seeks to re-examine the development of the Cartesian method in the context of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century debates about methodology, Timothy Reiss re-examined the influential thesis of J. H. Randall’s The School of Padua and the emergence of modern...
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Chapter 5Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes

Sorell, Tom

Pages: 71 –82

[Descartes appears to have more than one conception of science. First, there is the relatively exacting conception that he associates with scientia. This is the conception that comes into play in a well-known passage from the Replies in which he explains how an atheist can and can’t know that the...
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Chapter 6Scientia and Self-knowledge in Descartes

Jolley, Nicholas

Pages: 83 –97

[In The Search after Truth and related writings Malebranche strongly criticizes Descartes’s thesis that the nature of the mind is better known than the nature of body. In opposition to his mentor Malebranche maintains that whereas we have a clear idea of body, we have no such idea of the mind; we...
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Chapter 7Spinoza’s Theory of Scientia Intuitiva

Garrett, Don

Pages: 99 –115

[Many prominent distinctions involving kinds of knowledge or cognition are dichotomous: a priori or a posteriori, necessary or contingent, analytic or synthetic, conceptual or empirical, certain or probable, self-evident or inferential, general or particular, intellectual or imaginative.]
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Chapter 8Scientia in Hobbes

Jesseph, Douglas

Pages: 117 –127

[Thomas Hobbes is much better remembered for his political philosophy than his epistemology. Nevertheless, his theory of knowledge is an important contribution to the development of epistemology in the early modern period. The centerpiece of Hobbes’s theory of knowledge is his account of...
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Chapter 9John Locke and the Limits of Scientia

Rogers, G.A.J.

Pages: 129 –136

[Locke uses the word “science”, with the force of the Latin word scientia, over twenty times in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. It is a very important concept in his account of knowledge and its limitations and his understanding of it stands in interesting contrast with other major...

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