Author: William WhewellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical, by William Whewell,... Including the Completion of the 3rd Edition of "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences"
Author: William WhewellOn the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical Including the Completion of the Third Edition of the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences by William Whewell
Author: William WhewellOn the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
National Round Table on The Environment and the Economy : a Report to Canadians, June, 1989-1990
Author: On the Philosophy of Discovery
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
On the Philosophy of Discovery
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 531
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655909
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, a most significant and popular work, presenting an extended treatment of some matters central to empiricism that found little space in Mill's Logic, the best known being his treatment of matter and mind from a psychological viewpoint. Appearing just before his successful parliamentary candidature, the Examination, with its deliberate and explicit onslaught on the intuitionists who were, in Mill's view, allied with anti-progressive political and religious forces, brought his beliefs into the public arena in a new way. Some of those who supported him politically found themselves viciously attacked because they had associated themselves with one who assailed settled religious beliefs. Other religionists who rejected many of Mill's attitudes strong expressed their admiration of the Examination because of its exposure to what they, with him, saw as dangerous theological and moral positions. Alan Ryan's analytical and historial introduction dwells on the most significant philosophical elements in the work, placing them in perspective and showing their relations to other aspects of Mill's thought. The textual introduction, by John M. Robson, examines the treatise in context of Mill's life in the 1860s, outlines its composition, and discusses, among other matters, the importance of the extensive revisions Mill made, mostly in response to critics. These revisions appear in full in the textual apparatus. Also provided are a bibliographical index, which gives a guide to the literature on the subject, and a collation of Mill's quotations, an analytical index, and appendices giving the reading of manuscript fragments and listing textual emendations.
Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdWilliam Whewell
Author: Lukas M. VerburgtPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991527
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
William Whewell, the famous master of Trinity College in Cambridge, was a central figure in nineteenth-century British scientific culture and one of the last great polymaths. His influential work ranged from history and philosophy of science, education, architecture, mineralogy, and political economy to mathematics, engineering, natural theology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. Among his many gifts to science was his role as cofounder and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and his wordsmithing; he coined the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, and electrode. While he was himself an opponent of evolution through natural selection, Whewell’s most famous works, including his Bridgewater Treatise (1833) and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), played a formative role in Charles Darwin’s creation of the theory of evolution. William Whewell: Victorian Polymath reexamines the whole of Whewell’s oeuvre, as well as the wide range and internal unity of his many polymathic endeavors, placing him within the early Victorian intellectual landscape and highlighting his exchanges with other important figures of the period, such as John Herschel, Charles Lyell, and Robert Peel. Bringing together a group of eminent and emergent scholars, the volume explores all major aspects of Whewell’s reform project and its legacy, both in the sciences and the humanities, in the Victorian era and beyond.