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John Locke and Natural Philosophy by Anstey, Peter R.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780199589777
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- John Locke and Natural Philosophy
- Item Height
- 240mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Topic
- Archaeology, Popular Philosophy, Science
- Item Width
- 163mm
- Item Weight
- 562g
- Number of Pages
- 266 Pages
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John Locke and Natural Philosophy is a thorough and innovative study of Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. Focusing on Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding, but also drawing extensively from his other writings and manuscript remains, Peter Anstey argues that Locke was an advocate of the Experimental Philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy. On the question of method, Anstey shows how Locke's pessimism about the prospects for a demonstrative science of nature led him, in the Essay, to promote Francis Bacon's method of natural history, and to downplay the value of hypotheses and analogical reasoning in science. But, according to Anstey, Locke never abandoned the ideal of a demonstrative natural philosophy, for he believed that if we could discover the primary qualities of the tiny corpuscles that constitute material bodies, we could then establish a kind of corpuscular metric that would allow us a genuine science of nature. It was only after the publication of the Essay, however, that Locke came to realize that Newton's Principia provided a model for the role of demonstrative reasoning in science based on principles established upon observation, and this led him to make significant revisions to his views in the 1690s.On the content of Locke's natural philosophy, Anstey argues that even though Locke adhered to the Experimental Philosophy, he was not averse to speculation about the corpuscular nature of matter. He takes us into new terrain and new interpretations of Locke's thought in his explorations of his mercurialist transmutational chymistry, his theory of generation by seminal principles and his conventionalism about species.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199589777
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97857676
Product Key Features
Book Title
John Locke and Natural Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, Popular Philosophy, Science
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
266 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
562g
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United Kingdom
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