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On the Philosophy of Discovery, by William Whewell, D.D

On the Philosophy of Discovery, by William Whewell, D.D

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Author
William Whewell
Title
On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
Credits
Produced by Sonya Schermann, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
Subject
Science -- History
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Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 51555
Release Date
March 25, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISCOVERY, CHAPTERS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL; — PREFACE — CONTENTS.
  2. 2.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3.CHAPTER II. Plato.
  4. 4.CHAPTER III. Additional Remarks on Plato.
  5. 5.CHAPTER IV. Aristotle.
  6. 6.CHAPTER V. Additional Remarks on Aristotle.
  7. 7.CHAPTER VI. The Later Greeks.
  8. 8.CHAPTER VII. The Romans.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. Arabian Philosophers.
  10. 10.CHAPTER IX. The Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.
  11. 11.CHAPTER X. The Innovators of the Middle Ages.
  12. 12.CHAPTER XI. The Innovators of the Middle Ages—continued.
  13. 13.CHAPTER XII. The Revival of Platonism.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XIII. The Theoretical Reformers of Science.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIV. The Practical Reformers of Science.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XV. Francis Bacon.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XVI. Additional Remarks on Francis Bacon.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVII. From Bacon to Newton.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII. Newton.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIX. Locke and his French Followers.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XX. The Reaction against the Sensational School.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XXI. Further Advance of the Sensational School. M. Auguste Comte.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Mill's Logic [264] .
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII. Political Economy as an Inductive Science.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV. Modern German Philosophy [295] .
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXV. The Fundamental Antithesis as it exists in the Moral World.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXVI. Of the "Philosophy of the Infinite."
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXVII. Sir William Hamilton on Inertia and Weight.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVIII. Influence of German Systems of Philosophy in Britain.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIX. Necessary Truth is progressive. Objections considered.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXX. The Theological Bearing of the Philosophy of Discovery.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXXI. Man's Knowledge of God.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXXII. Analogies of Physical and Religious Philosophy.
  34. 34.APPENDIX. — Appendix A. OF THE PLATONIC THEORY OF IDEAS. — Appendix B. ON PLATO'S SURVEY OF THE SCIENCES. — Appendix BB. ON PLATO'S NOTION OF DIALECTIC. — Appendix C. OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS ACCORDING TO PLATO. — Appendix D. CRITICISM OF ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF INDUCTION. — Appendix E. ON THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTITHESIS OF PHILOSOPHY. — Appendix F. REMARKS ON A REVIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES. — Appendix G. OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF HYPOTHESES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. — Appendix H. ON HEGEL'S CRITICISM OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA. — APPENDIX TO THE MEMOIR ON HEGEL'S CRITICISM OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA. — Appendix K. DEMONSTRATION THAT ALL MATTER IS HEAVY. — WORKS BY WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D. F.R.S. MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE . — New Books and New Editions, Published by John W. Parker and Son, West Strand . — Annotated Edition of the English Poets, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND MEMOIRS, Historical, Biographical and Critical, BY ROBERT BELL . — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Notes

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