Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sorell, Tom (Editor), Rogers, G.A (Editor), Kraye, Jill (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 24
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Cultural heritage.; History.; Modern philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; History of Science.; Modern Philosophy.; History, general.; Cultural Heritage.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Philosophia, Historia, Mathematica: Shifting Sands in the Disciplinary Geography of the Seventeenth Century
• The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia
• Matter, Mortality, and the Changing Ideal of Science
• Scientia and Inductio Scientifica in the Logica Hamburgensis of Joachim Jungius
• Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes
• Scientia and Self-knowledge in Descartes
• Spinoza’s Theory of Scientia Intuitiva
• Scientia in Hobbes
• John Locke and the Limits of Scientia.