The age of epistemology : Aristotelian logic in early modern philosophy, 1500-1700

Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figures including Galileo Galilei, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton. This history illuminates the debates philosophers had on deduction, meditation, regressus , syllogism, experiment and observation, the certainty of mathematics and the foundations of scientific knowledge. Sgarbi focuses on the Aristotelian education key philosophers received, providing a concrete historical framework through which to read epistemological re-definitions, developments and transformations over three centuries. The Age of Epistemology further highlights how Aristotelianism itself changed over time by absorbing doctrines from other philosophical traditions and generating a variety of interpretations in the process. "Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figures including Galileo Galilei, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Isaac Newton. This history illuminates the debates philosophers had on deduction, meditation, regressus , syllogism, experiment and observation, the certainty of mathematics, and the foundations of scientific knowledge. Sgarbi focuses in on the Aristotelian education key philosophers received, providing a concrete historical framework through which to read epistemological re-definitions, developments and transformations over three centuries. Aristotle's Scientific Doctrines in Early Modern Epistemology further highlights how Aristotelianism itself changed over time by absorbing doctrines from other philosophical traditions and generating a variety of interpretations in the process. Through contextualizing these diverse approaches and reactions to scientific Aristotelian philosophy, this book tells a new essential history of epistemology"-- Provided by publisher Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figures including Galileo Galilei, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton. This history illuminates the debates philosophers had on deduction, meditation, regressus, syllogism, experiment and observation, the certainty of mathematics and the foundations of scientific knowledge. Sgarbi focuses on the Aristotelian education key philosophers received, providing a concrete historical framework through which to read epistemological re-definitions, developments and transformations over three centuries. The Age of Epistemology further highlights how Aristotelianism itself changed over time by absorbing doctrines from other philosophical traditions and generating a variety of interpretations in the process Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Epigraph 6 Contents 8 Sources and abbreviations 9 Introduction 10 1 Averroists 22 2 Alexandrists 40 3 Francis Bacon 54 4 Galileo Galilei 74 5 Thomas Hobbes 102 6 René Descartes 116 7 Isaac Barrow 142 8 Robert Hooke 158 9 John Locke 176 10 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 190 11 Isaac Newton 204 Conclusion 232 Notes 248 Introduction 248 1 Averroists 249 2 Alexandrists 251 3 Francis Bacon 253 4 Galileo Galilei 257 5 Thomas Hobbes 261 6 René Descartes 263 7 Isaac Barrow 268 8 Robert Hooke 270 9 John Locke 272 10 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 274 11 Isaac Newton 276 Conclusion 280 References 284 Index 304