The Figural and the literal
Subtitle: problems of language in the history of science and philosophy, 1630-1800
By: edited by Andrew E. Benjamin, Geoffrey N. Cantor, and John R.R. Christie.
Contributors: Benjamin, Andrew E.; Cantor, G. N., 1943-; Christie, J. R. R.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Manchester, U.K; Wolfeboro, N.H., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Rhetoric -- History -- Congresses.; Science -- Language -- History -- Congresses.; Analysis (Philosophy) -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Largely papers presented at a conference held at Leeds University, Jan. 10-12, 1984.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rhetoric and writing in early modern philosophy and science / John R.R. Christie; title: Descartes' fable : the Discours de la méthode / Andrew E. Benjamin; title: Hobb's two theories of meaning / George MacDonald Ross; title: Robert Boyle : scepticism and authority in seventeenth-century chemical discouse / Jan V. Golinski; title: The ark in flames : science, language, and education in seventeenth-century England / Tony Davies; title: The perfect cheat : Locke and empiricism's rhetoric / Geoff Bennington - Weighing light : the role of metaphor in eighteenth-century optical discourse / Geoffrey N. Cantor; title: Figures of the unthinkable : Diderot's materialist metaphors / Michael Moriarty; title: Polite culture in commercial society / Stephen Copley - Adam Smith's metaphysics of language / John R.R. Christie.