{"product_id":"the-logic-and-methodology-of-fred-wilson-9780802043566","title":"The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Aristotelian notions of logic and causation came under serious attack. Traditional philosophy speaks of this period as marking a revolution in scientific thought. In this book Fred Wilson reinstates and extends the traditional conception of the scientific revolution and its significance, and explores the goals and directions of the new science according to the differing interpretations of rationalist and empiricist thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilson argues for an empiricist approach to scientific method and explanation, and defends an empiricist as opposed to an Aristotelian account of logic. Calling on an impressive range of intellectual history, he gives a sympathetic account of the earlier Aristotelian philosophy, including such topics as the role of God in explanations, and then proceeds to examine the evolution of the empiricist account of science through a number of early modern figures: Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Berkeley, and Hume. He shows that the new science was characterized not just by its methodology and the kinds of explanations it engendered, but also by a new epistemology and a new understanding of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA skilled and widely published author in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of science, Wilson brings persuasive new argument and detail to his re-evaluation of this important subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802043569\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802043566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.46w x 1.46d","brand":"Fred Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448958234879,"sku":"9780802043566","price":152.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97904433-5ac0-4449-9f2e-de999328dfd4.jpg?v=1777261346","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-logic-and-methodology-of-fred-wilson-9780802043566","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}