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Galileo, Human Knowledge, and the Book of Nature - Method Replaces Metaphysics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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Galileo, Human Knowledge, and the Book of Nature - Method Replaces Metaphysics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 50
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Galileo is revered as one of the founders of modern science
primarily because of such discoveries as the law of falling bodies
and the moons of Jupiter. In addition to his scientific
achievements, Professor Pitt argues that Galileo deserves increased
attention for his contributions to the methodology of the new
science and that his method retains its value even today. In a
detailed analysis of Galileo's mature works, Pitt reconstructs
crucial features of Galileo's epistemology. He shows how Galileo's
methodological insights grow out of an appreciation of the limits
of human knowledge and he brings fresh insight to our concept of
Galileo's methodology and its implications for contemporary
debates. Working from Galileo's insistence on the contrast between
the number of things that can be known and the limited abilities of
human knowers, Pitt shows how Galileo's common sense approach to
rationality permits the development of a robust scientific method.
At the same time, Pitt argues that we should correct our picture of
Galileo, the culture hero. Instead of seeing him as a martyr to the
cause of truth, Galileo is best understood as a man of his times
who was responding to a variety of social pressures during a period
of intellectual and political turmoil. This book will be of
interest to philosophers and to historians and sociologists of
science as well as to a general readership interested in the
scientific revolution.
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