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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries :

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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries :

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Essays in honour of Gerd Buchdahl

by R.S. Woolhouse.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1988

(380 pages)

University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields, 43.

Gerd Buchdahl: Biographical and Bibliographical --;Gerd Buchdahl: A Tribute --;Nature and Science in the Renaissance --;Galileo and the Jesuits --;Descartes and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment --;Descartes' Conception of Inference --;The Demarcation between Metaphysics and Other Disciplines in the Thought of Leibniz --;Leibniz and Occasionalism --;Vico's Heroic Metaphor --;Dynamics and Intelligibility: Bernoulli and MacLaurin --;Sensible and Intelligible Worlds in Leibniz and Kant --;Transcendental Reasoning and the Indeterminacy of the Human Point of View --;Buchdahl and Rorty on Kant and the History of Philosophy --;The Early Reception of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science --;The Enlightenment and the Chemical Revolution --;The Significance of Schelling's 'Epoch of a Wholly New Natural History': An Essay on the Realization of Questions --;Notes on the Contributors.

The essays in this collection have been written for Gerd Buchdahl, by colleagues, students and friends, and are self-standing pieces of original research which have as their main concern the metaphysics and philosophy of science of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

by R.S. Woolhouse.

R S Woolhouse

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