Galileo, Human Knowledge, and the Book of Nature: Method Replaces Metaphysics - Softcover

Pitt, Joseph C.

 
9789401126212: Galileo, Human Knowledge, and the Book of Nature: Method Replaces Metaphysics

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Preface. I. Galileo as Scientist and as Philosopher and the Emergence of Mathematical Physics in the 17th Century. II. Galileo on God, Mathematics, Certainty, and the Nature and Possibility of Human Knowledge. III. The Limits of Knowledge; Mathematics and Methodological Principles. IV. The Content of Knowledge. V. Evidence; the Basis of Knowledge. VI. Galileo's Epistemology as the Basis for a Theory of the Growth of Knowledge. Works Consulted.

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