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The Genealogy of Knowledge Analytical Essays in the History of Philosophy and Science

318 Pages

by Routledge

318 Pages

by Routledge

318 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American philosophical interests. The essays making up the section on ‘Antiquity’ share one concern: to show that there are largely unrecognised but radical differences between the way in which certain fundamental questions – concerning the nature of number, sense perception, and... Read more

Part 1. Antiquity. 1. Aristotle on Intelligible Matter. 2. The One and the Many: Aristotle on the Individuation of Numbers. 3. Aristotle on the Function of Sense Perception. 4. The Ten Modes of Aenesidemus and the Myth of Ancient Scepticism. Part 2. Early Modern Thought. 5. Galileo, Experiment and the Molecularity of Meaning. 6. Descartes’ Conception of Inference. 7. Descartes’ Early Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas. 8. The Sources of Descartes’ Procedure of Deductive Demonstration in Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy. 9. Nature Without Reason: Cartesian Automata and Perceptual Cognition. 10. The Role of the Ontological Argument in Anselm, Descartes, and Spinoza. Part 3. The Enlightenment and Beyond. 11. The Metaphysics of Impenetrability: Euler’s Conception of Force. 12. Vico and the Maker’s Knowledge Principle. 13. Romanticism and Decommodification: Marx’s Conception of Socialism. 14. Beyond Reality: Nietzsche’s Science of Appearances.