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The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism - Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570-1689) (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism - Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570-1689) (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 32
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Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in
the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement
of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of
logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines
were strongly empiricist in nature, both in the theory of knowledge
and in scientific method; this character marked and influenced
further developments in British philosophy at the end of the
century, and eventually gave rise to what we now call British
empiricism, which is represented by philosophers such as John
Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume. Beyond the apparent and
explicit criticism of the old Scholastic and Aristotelian
philosophy, which has been very well recognized by the scholarship
in the twentieth century and which has contributed to the false
notion that early modern philosophy emerged as a reaction to
Aristotelianism, the present research examines the continuity, the
original developments and the impact of Aristotelian doctrines and
terminology in logic and epistemology as the background for the
rise of empiricism.Without the Aristotelian tradition, without its
doctrines, and without its conceptual elaborations, British
empiricism would never have been born. The book emphasizes that
philosophy is not defined only by the 'great names', but also by
minor authors, who determine the intellectual milieu from which the
canonical names emerge. It considers every single published work of
logic between the middle of the sixteenth and the end of the
seventeenth century, being acquainted with a number of surviving
manuscripts and being well-informed about the best existing
scholarship in the field.
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