Title | Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures [electronic resource] / edited by Graham Solomon |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9504-9 |
Descript | X, 206 p. online resource |
I: Witches and Witch-Hunters -- 1. Two Stories About Evil: Christianity and the Creation of Witches -- 2. The Tamblyn Lectures: DE PRAESTIGIIS DAEMONUM: Early Modern Witchcraft: Some Philosophical Reflections -- II: Philosophy and Science From Leibniz to Kant -- 3. Leibnizโ Monads: A Heritage of Gnosticism and a Source of Rational Science -- 4. Rationalism in Modern Science: dโAlembert and the โesprit simplisteโ -- 5. Humeโs Scepticism -- 6. Husserlโs Critique of Humeโs Notion of Distinctions of Reason -- 7. The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP -- 8. Kantโs Theory of Musical Sound: An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science -- 9. Kantโs Dialectic and the Logic of Illusion -- III: Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science -- 10. The Hypothetico-Deductive Model of Scientific Theories: A Sympathetic Disclaimer -- 11. Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy -- 12. Sciences and Pseudosciences: An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation -- 13. The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930โ1962