{"product_id":"common-sense-and-science-from-benjamin-w-redekop-9781785279805","title":"Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the dynamic relationship between common sense and science has gone largely unrecognized in the history of ideas, \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demonstrates how a diverse array of neglected early modern thinkers turn out to have been on the right track for understanding how the mind makes sense of the world and how basic features of the human mind and cognition are related to scientific theory and practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship from the history of ideas, cognitive science, and the history and philosophy of science, this book helps readers understand the fundamental historical and philosophical relationship between common sense and science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The story begins in the ancient world, where \"scientific\" knowledge (\u003cem\u003eepist?m?\u003c\/em\u003e in Greek, \u003cem\u003escientia\u003c\/em\u003e in Latin) arose in counterpoint to everyday understanding and common opinion, until Aristotle produced a reconciliation of the two that set the course for scientific thought for the next two millennia. It then moves into the early modern period, when the New Science of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton emerged triumphant, and common sense and its relationship to science once again became problematic, remaining so to this day. The book goes on to examine this fraught relationship, and the early modern thinkers who sought to repair it, culminating in the thought of the philosopher Thomas Reid (1711-1796), the preeminent figure in the Scottish school of common sense philosophy. A comprehensive epilogue brings the story into the present. It is a story full of fascinating twists and turns, but ultimately a tale about the perennial quest to understand how the human mind is able to gain credible and reliable knowledge about the self, nature, other human beings, and God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin W. Redekop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1785279807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785279805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Benjamin W. Redekop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670496891135,"sku":"9781785279805","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e04fb63-3c69-4554-a39c-55c8c09d053d.jpg?v=1741316938","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/common-sense-and-science-from-benjamin-w-redekop-9781785279805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}