Age of Epistemology
Aristotelian Logic in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1700

By (author) Dr Marco Sgarbi

ISBN13: 9781350326699

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Published: 31/10/2024

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Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figures including Galileo Galilei, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton. This history illuminates the debates philosophers had on deduction, meditation, regressus, syllogism, experiment and observation, the certainty of mathematics and the foundations of scientific knowledge. Sgarbi focuses on the Aristotelian education key philosophers received, providing a concrete historical framework through which to read epistemological re-definitions, developments and transformations over three centuries. The Age of Epistemology further highlights how Aristotelianism itself changed over time by absorbing doctrines from other philosophical traditions and generating a variety of interpretations in the process.
Sources and Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Averroists 3. Alexandrists 4. Francis Bacon 5. Galileo Galilei 6. Thomas Hobbes 7. René Descartes 8. Isaac Barrow 9. Robert Hooke 10. John Locke 11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 12. Isaac Newton 13. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
  • Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
  • Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
  • Professional & Vocational
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