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" Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries : "
by R.S. Woolhouse.
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BL
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716856
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b536540
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by R.S. Woolhouse.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries : : Essays in honour of Gerd Buchdahl\ by R.S. Woolhouse.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1988
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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.
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(380 pages)
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9400929978
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: 9789400929975
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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.
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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.
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Philosophy (General)
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Science -- Philosophy.
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B67.B977 1988
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R S Woolhouse
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