On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical

Name: On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
Author: Whewell, William

Whewell, William

Philosophy -- History; Science -- History; Science -- Philosophy

CHAP. XVII. FROM BACON TO NEWTON.
             1. Harvey.
             2. Descartes.
             3. Gassendi.
             4. Actual Progress in Science.
             5. Otto Guericke, &c.
             6. Hooke.
             7. Royal Society.
             8. Bacon's _New Atalantis_.
             9. Cowley.
            10. Barrow.

  CHAP. XVIII. NEWTON.
             1. Animating effect of his Discoveries.
             2. They confirm Bacon's views.
             3. Newton shuns Hypotheses.
             4. His views of Inductive Philosophy.
             5. His "Rules of Philosophizing."
             6. _The First Rule._
             7. What is a "True Cause"?
             8. _Such_ as are real?
             9. Or _those_ which are proved?
            10. Use of the Rule.
            11. Rule otherwise expressed.
            12. _The Second Rule._
            13. What are Events "of the same kind"?
            14. _The Third Rule_:
            15. Not safe.
            16. _The Fourth Rule._
            17. Occult Qualities.
            18. Ridiculed.
            19. Distinction of Laws and Causes.

  CHAP. XIX. LOCKE AND HIS FRENCH FOLLOWERS.
             1. Cause of Locke's popularity.
             2. Sensational School.
             3. His inconsistencies.
             4. Condillac, &c.
             5. Importance of Language.
             6. Ground of this.
             7. The Encyclopedists.
             8. Helvetius.
             9. Value of Arts.
            10. Tendency to Reaction.

  CHAP. XX. THE REACTION AGAINST THE SENSATIONAL SCHOOL.
             1. "Nisi intellectus ipse."
             2. Price's "Review."
             3. Stewart defends Price.
             4. Archbishop Whately.
             5. Laromiguière.
             6. M. Cousin.
             7. M. Ampère.
             8. His Classification of Sciences.
             9. Kant's Reform of Philosophy.
            10. Its Effect in Germany.

  CHAP. XXI. FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE SENSATIONAL SCHOOL.
                M. Auguste Comte.
             1. M. Comte on three States of Science.
             2. M. Comte rejects the Search of Causes.
             3. Causes in Physics.
             4. Causes in other Sciences.
             5. M. Comte's Practical Philosophy.
             6. M. Comte on Hypotheses.
             7. M. Comte's Classification of Sciences.

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