Scientia in early modern philosophy : seventeenth-century thinkers on demonstrative knowledge from first principles

Author(s)

• Sorell, Tom
• Rogers, G. A. J. (Graham Alan John)
• Kraye, Jill

Bibliographic Information

Scientia in early modern philosophy : seventeenth-century thinkers on demonstrative knowledge from first principles

edited by Tom Sorell, G.A.J. Rogers, Jill Kraye

（Studies in history and philosophy of science, v. 24）

Springer, c2010

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Tom Sorell University of Birmingham Philosophia, Historia, Mathematica: Shifting Sands in the Disciplinary Geography of the Seventeenth Century, Daniel Garber Princeton University The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia, Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney Matter, Mortality and the Changing Ideal of Science, Catherine Wilson University of Aberdeen Scientia and Inductio scientifica in the Logica Hamburgensis of Joachim Jungius, Stephen Clucas Birkbeck University of London Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes, Tom Sorell University of Birmingham Scientia and Self-Knowledge in Descartes, Nicholas Jolley University of California, Irvine Spinoza's Theory of Scientia Intuitiva, Don Garrett NYU Scientia in Hobbes, Douglas Jesseph University of South Florida John Locke and the Limits of scientia, G.A.J. Rogers Keele University

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Details

• NCID: BB00280054
• ISBN:
  • 9789048130764
  • 9789400730809
• LCCN: 2009937293
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Dordrecht
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 139 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA7631311X