Description: Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy : Selected Readings, Paperback by Matthews, Michael R. (EDT), ISBN 1647920868, ISBN-13 9781647920869, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Through a collection of works from key thinkers in natural philosophy, the second edition of The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy illuminates the central role scientific writing played in developing modern philosophical thought. This revised and expanded edition includes many new translations and incorporates works by foundational eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers not in the first edition, including selections from works by Jean-Baptiste, le Rond d’Alembert, Denis Diderot, Émilie Du Châtelet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Priestley, Immanuel Kant, Carl Linnaeus, William Paley, and Charles Robert Darwin. These new additions provide students with a more comprehensive understanding of the scientific context in which the major philosophical works of the modern era were written and complement the selections from works by Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton that are retained from the first edition.
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Book Title: Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy : Selected Readings
Item Length: 9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Michael R. Matthews
Publication Name: Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy : Selected Writings
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
