The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded upon their History

William Whewell

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Founded upon their History

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William Whewell

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781139644662
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139644662

Subjects:: History of Science, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, General Science
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy

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First published in 1840, this two-volume treatise by Cambridge polymath William Whewell (1794–1886) remains significant in the philosophy of science. The work was intended as the 'moral' to his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), which is also reissued in this series. Building on philosophical foundations laid by Immanuel Kant and Francis Bacon, Whewell opens with the aphorism 'Man is the Interpreter of Nature, Science the right interpretation'. Volume 1 contains the majority of Whewell's section on 'ideas', in which he investigates the philosophy underlying a range of different disciplines, including pure, classificatory and mechanical sciences. Whewell's work upholds throughout his belief that the mind was active and not merely a passive receiver of knowledge from the world. A key text in Victorian epistemological debates, notably challenged by John Stuart Mill and his System of Logic, Whewell's treatise merits continued study and discussion in the present day.

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Founded upon their History

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CHAP. 7 - Of some Peculiarities of the Idea of Time
pp 124-128

CHAP. 8 - Of the Axioms which relate to Number
pp 128-131

CHAP. 9 - Of the Perception of Time and Number
pp 131-135

CHAP. 10 - Of Mathematical Reasoning
pp 135-138

CHAP. 11 - Of the Foundations of the Higher Mathematics
pp 139-144

CHAP. 12 - Of the Doctrine of Motion
pp 144-147

CHAP. 13 - Of the Application of Mathematics to the Inductive Sciences
pp 147-156

BOOK III - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICAL SCIENCES

CHAP. 1 - Of the Mechanical Sciences
pp 157-158

CHAP. 2 - Of the Idea of Cause
pp 158-163

CHAP. 3 - Modern Opinions respecting the Idea of Cause
pp 163-169

CHAP. 4 - Of the Axioms which relate to the Idea of Cause
pp 169-177

CHAP. 5 - Of the Origin of our Conceptions of Force and Matter
pp 177-184

CHAP. 6 - Of the Establishment of the Principles of Statics
pp 184-207

CHAP. 7 - Of the Establishment of the Principles of Dynamics
pp 207-236

CHAP. 8 - Of the Paradox of Universal Propositions established by Experience
pp 237-245

CHAP. 9 - Of the Establishment of the Law of Universal Gravitation
pp 246-253

CHAP. 10 - Of the General Diffusion of Clear Mechanical Ideas
pp 253-265

BOOK IV - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SECONDARY MECHANICAL SCIENCES

CHAP. 1 - Of the Idea of a Medium as commonly employed
pp 266-274

CHAP. 2 - Of Peculiarities in the Perceptions of the Different Senses
pp 275-294

CHAP. 3 - Successive Attempts at the Application of the Idea of a Medium
pp 295-306

CHAP. 4 - Of the Measure of Secondary Qualities
pp 306-330

BOOK V - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICO-CHEMICAL SCIENCES

CHAP. 1 - Attempts at the Scientific Application of the Idea of Polarity
pp 331-343

CHAP. 2 - Of the Connexion of Polarities
pp 343-360

BOOK VI - THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY

CHAP. 1 - Attempts to conceive Elementary Composition
pp 361-373

CHAP. 2 - Establishment and Development of the Idea of Chemical Affinity
pp 373-388

CHAP. 3 - Of the Idea of Substance
pp 388-396

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