Overview
- Accessible study of the early modern philosophers dispute on Scientia
- Philosophers surveyed : Spinoza, Hobbes, Descartes, Gassendi, Locke and Jungius
- Through top contributors a must-read for everybody interested in early modern knowledge theory
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 24)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This narrowly focused collection of papers seeks to explicate competing notions of scientia in the works of 17th century natural philosophers … . The quality of the entries is consistently high and their variety is refreshing. … The papers can be read profitably by anyone interested in the history and philosophy of science in the early modern period … . this collection will prove extremely useful for a variety of purposes, including the amusement of pedants and the stoking of scholarly debate.” (Scott Stapleford, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 30 (6), December, 2010)
“Here for the first time, a series of clear, informative studies of the foremost early modern thinkers’ conceptions of scientia are brought together under one cover. The nine contributors are a veritable Who’s Who of historians of early modern philosophy and the philosophers covered include some of the leading thinkers of the age … . the volume offers both breadth and depth of coverage. … this collection is a welcome and timely addition to the field.” (Peter R. Anstey, Metascience, Vol. 20, 2011)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy
Book Subtitle: Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles
Editors: Tom Sorell, G.A. Rogers, Jill Kraye
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3077-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3076-4Published: 23 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3080-9Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3077-1Published: 28 October 2009
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 139
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Science, Modern Philosophy, History, general, Cultural Heritage