Sorell / Rogers / Kraye Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy

Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-481-3077-1
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 139 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorell, Tom

Rogers, G.A.

Kraye, Jill

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Introduction;6
3;Contributors;13
4;Philosophia, Historia, Mathematica: Shifting Sands in the Disciplinary Geography of the Seventeenth Century;14
4.1; Scientia, Mathematica and Historia ca. 1600;14
4.2; People and Places;20
4.3; What Happened in the Seventeenth Century?;24
5;The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia ;31
5.1;Scientia and Its Critics ;31
5.2;Contemplative Versus Practical Natural Philosophy;32
5.3;The Unity of Natural Philosophy;36
5.4;Reduction;38
5.5;What Cost Unification?;40
5.6;Conclusion;44
6;Matter, Mortality, and the Changing Ideal of Science;46
6.1;I Gassendi's Attack on Aristotelian Scientia ;46
6.2;II Atomism and the Mortality of the Soul;48
6.3;III Mortalism: Epistemological Considerations;51
6.4;IV Boyle, Bentley and Layton on Thinking Matter;57
6.5;V Lockes Argument from Ignorance and his Ideas;58
6.6;VI The Science of Mere Corporeal Nature;61
7;Scientia and Inductio Scientifica in the Logica Hamburgensis of Joachim Jungius;63
8;Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes;81
8.1;I Scientia and Knowledge;82
8.2;II Two Conceptions of Science Reconciled;85
8.3;III Logic and a Logic of Science;88
8.4;IV Metaphysics and the Other Sciences;91
9; Scientia and Self-knowledge in Descartes;93
9.1;I Descartes and Scientia ;94
9.2;II Scientia and the Mind: The Second Meditation;98
9.3;III Scientia and the Mind: Other Texts;103
9.4;IV The Possibility of a Scientia of Mind;105
10;Spinozas Theory of Scientia Intuitiva ;108
10.1;The Nature of Scientia Intuitiva ;110
10.2;Scientia Intuitiva and Other Kinds of Cognition ;115
10.3;The Scope of Scientia Intuitiva ;118
10.4;The Value of Scientia Intuitiva ;121
10.5;References;123
11;Scientia in Hobbes;125
11.1; Hobbes on Knowledge and Its Types;126
11.2;Scientia, Signs, and Syllogisms;127
11.2.1;Scientia and Prudentia Distinguished ;128
11.2.2;Scientia and Causes ;129
11.3;The Scope of Scientia ;132
11.4;References;134
12;John Locke and the Limits of Scientia ;136
13;Index;144