Author: Santillana, Giorgio de ; Zilsel, Edgar Title: The Development of Rationalism and Empiricism
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, viii, 94 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Volume II, No. 8.. Rubbed. Corner bumped. Good. ¶ Contents: Giorgio de Santillana: Aspects of Scientific Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century: Introduction; The Crisis of the Eighteenth Century; The Formula as a Transcedent; Mechanics and the Nature of matter; Formalization of mechanics; The Atomic Idea; Atomism and Central Forces; The Embarraament of reality; From Mechanics to Physics; The Particle and the Field; The Fate of Scientific Rationalism; Problem of Empiricusm: The Rise of Experimental Science; The Philosophy of Modern Classical Empiricism; The Advange of Empirical Science; The Decline of the Mechanical Conception of Nature.
Keywords: Rationalism, Empiricism, Materialism, History of Ideas, Philosophy, , , ,
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