The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689) /

• Main Author: Sgarbi, Marco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 32
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Philosophy and science.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.
• Physical Description: XII, 260 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400749511
• ISSN: 0929-6425 ;

This book is a radical reappraisal of the importance of Aristotelianism in Britain. Using a full range of manuscripts as well as printed sources, it provides an entirely new interpretation of the impact of the early-modern Aristotelian tradition upon the rise of British Empiricism, and reexamines the fundamental shift from a humanist logic to epistemology and facultative logic. The task is to reconstruct the philosophical background and framework in which the thought of philosophers such Locke, Berkeley and Hume originated: some aspects of their empiricism can be explained only in reference to the academic Aristotelian tradition, even if these authors established themselves as anti-scholastic, anti-Aristotelian philosophers outside the official institutions.