The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical Essay (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Edwin Arthur Burtt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0331704463 ISBN 13: 9780331704464

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical Essay

How curious, after all, is the way in which we moderns think about our world And it is all so novel, too. The cosmology underlying our mental processes is but three centuries old - a mere infant in the history of thought - and yet we cling to it with the same embarrassed zeal with which a young father fondles his new-born baby. Like him, we are ignorant enough of its precise nature like him, we nevertheless take it piously to be ours and allow it a subtly pervasive and unhindered control over our thinking.

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Edwin Arthur Burtt (1892 - 1989) was an American philosopher who wrote extensively on the philosophy of religion. He was the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331704463
• ISBN 13: 9780331704464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 382