Peter Anstey presents an innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy -- the study of the natural world. He argues that Locke was an advocate of the Experimental Philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by the scientists of the Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy.
Peter Anstey presents an innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy -- the study of the natural world. He argues that Locke was an advocate of the Experimental Philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by the scientists of the Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Peter R. Anstey studied analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy at the University of Sydney. He later took up a U2000 postdoctoral fellowship at Sydney and then a lectureship. In 2006 he moved to Dunedin in New Zealand where he is the inaugural Professor of Early Modern Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. His research focuses on early modern philosophy with special reference to the writings of John Locke and Robert Boyle. He is the author of The Philosophy of Robert Boyle, London: Routledge, 2000.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Natural philosophy and the aims of the Essay 2: Corpuscular pessimism 3: Natural history 4: Hypotheses and analogy 5: Vortices, the deluge and cohesion 6: Mathematics 7: Demonstration 8: Explanation 9: Iatrochemistry 10: Generation 11: Species Conclusion List of manuscripts Bibliography Index
Introduction 1: Natural philosophy and the aims of the Essay 2: Corpuscular pessimism 3: Natural history 4: Hypotheses and analogy 5: Vortices, the deluge and cohesion 6: Mathematics 7: Demonstration 8: Explanation 9: Iatrochemistry 10: Generation 11: Species Conclusion List of manuscripts Bibliography Index
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