The Philosophy of the Inductive SciencesCambridge University Press, 02 հնվ, 2014 թ. - 648 էջ First published in 1840, this two-volume treatise by Cambridge polymath William Whewell (1794-1886) remains significant in the philosophy of science. The work was intended as the 'moral' to his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), which is also reissued in this series. Building on philosophical foundations laid by Immanuel Kant and Francis Bacon, Whewell opens with the aphorism 'Man is the Interpreter of Nature, Science the right interpretation'. Volume 1 contains the majority of Whewell's section on 'ideas', in which he investigates the philosophy underlying a range of different disciplines, including pure, classificatory and mechanical sciences. Whewell's work upholds throughout his belief that the mind was active and not merely a passive receiver of knowledge from the world. A key text in Victorian epistemological debates, notably challenged by John Stuart Mill and his System of Logic, Whewell's treatise merits continued study and discussion in the present day. |
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Aphorisms respecting Ideas | xvii |
Aphorisms respecting Knowledge | xxxvii |
Aphorisms respecting the Language of Science vaiii | xlix |
CHAP | l |
Of the Idea of Likeness as governing the use of Com | lviii |
relative to the Modern Period | lix |
relative to the Form of Terms | xcvi |
Aphorism XVII relative to the mode of introducing | cxvii |
by Experience | 237 |
Of the Establishment of the Law of Universal Gravi | 246 |
Of the General Diffusion OfClear Mechanical Ideas | 253 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SECONDARY MECHANICAL | 266 |
Of Peculiarities in the Perceptions of the Diflerent | 275 |
Successive Attempts at the Application of the Idea | 295 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICOCHEMICAL SCIENCES | 331 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY | 361 |
Of the Methods of Natural History as regulated by | 2 |
Of Induction | 41 |
Of the Philosophy of the Sciences | 71 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PURE SCIENCES | 79 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICAL Scruncns | 157 |
Establishment and Development of the Idea of Che | 373 |
ExPlication 0f the Idea of Symmetry | 423 |
Application of the Natural History Method to Mine | 494 |
0f the Idea of Natural Afiinity | 521 |
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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Հատոր 1 William Whewell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Հատոր 1 William Whewell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History, Հատոր 1 William Whewell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
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