Author: John BrownPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Locke and Sydenham and other papers
Author: John BrownJohn Locke and Medicine
Author: Patrick RomanellPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The philosophical thought of John Locke, a physician by profession, was colored by Locke's medical outlook to a much greater degree than had ever been suspected. Patrick Romanell, in John Locke and Medicine, examines Locke's relatively unknown medical writings and asks how Locke's own distinctive conception of human knowledge, traditionally classified under British empiricism, developed. He finds that, of all of Locke's interests, it is medicine that accounts most directly and effectively for his practical ideal of life and for his constant appeal to "profitable knowledge." In his masterpiece An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke attempted, as he stated it, "to describe to others, more particularly than had been done before, what it is their minds do, when they perform that action, which they call knowing." Locke was intent on describing "the natural history of knowledge" and he required an appropriate method of inquiry. Romanell shows that it was Locke's medical thought and his background as a physician that provided the paradigm for his famed "historical, plain method" of inquiry that he applied to his philosophical analysis of human understanding. In addition to the light this sheds on Locke's philosophy, this new information causes us to reconsider several other significant issues: the nature of the debate between the competing schools of Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism; the position of Sydenham the physician in Locke's intellectual development; and the subtle differences of temper within the long tradtition of British Empiricism itself. John Locke and Medicine is the first book to discuss the hitherto neglected relationship between Locke the phycisian and Locke the philosopher. A major contribution to the study of John Locke, it is also a fascinating account of one of the many instances of the meeting of medicine and philosophy in the history of ideas.
Spare Hours: Locke and Sydenham and other papers
Author: John BrownHorae Subsecivae ...: Lock and Sydenham, and other papers. 5th ed
Author: John BrownDr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)
Author: Kenneth DewhurstPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520319044
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.
Locke
Author: Thomas FowlerThe Continuum Companion to Locke
Author: S.-J. Savonius-WrothPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826428118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
history, as well as Enlightenment studies." --Book Jacket.
Locke's Image of the World
Author: Michael JacovidesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789866
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how the scientific revolution influenced one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke. By placing Locke's thought in its scientific, religious, and anti-scholastic contexts, Jacovides explains not only what Locke believes but also why he believes it.
The Life of John Locke
Author: Henry Richard Fox BournePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
Author: W. H. Newton-SmithPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631230205
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to the philosophy of science.