On the Philosophy of discovery
Subtitle: chapters historical and critical; including the completion of the third edition of the Philosophy of the inductive sciences.
Publisher: Parker
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
Subjects: Philosophy -- History
Table of contents: title: Plato; Aristotle; The later Greeks; The Romans; Arabian philosophers; The schoolmen of the Middle Ages; Innovators of the Middle Ages; The revival of Platonism; The theoretical reformers of science; The practical reformers of science; Francis Bacon; From Bacon to Newton; Newton; Locke and his French followers; The reaction against the sensational school; Further advance of the sensational school; Mr. Mill's logic; Political economy as an inductive science; Modern German philosophy; The fundamental antithesis as it exists in the moral world; Of the "Philosophy of the infinite"; Sir William Hamilton on Inertia and weight; Influence of German systems of philosophy in Britain; Necessary truth is progressive; The theological bearing of the Philosophy of discovery; Man's knowledge of God; Analogies of physical and religious philosophy; Of the Platonic theory of ideas; On Plato's survey of the sciences; On Plato's notion of dialect; Of the intellectual powers according to Plato; Criticism of Aristotle's account of induction; On the fundamental antithesis of philosophy; Remarks on a review of the philosophy of the inductive sciences; On the transformation of Hypotheses in the history of science; On Hegel's criticism of Newton's Principia; Demonstration that all matter is heavy.