Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin W. Redekop is Professor of Leadership Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He has published numerous books in the history of ideas, Anabaptist studies, and leadership studies. Klappentext Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demonstrates how a diverse array of neglected early modern thinkers turn out to have been on the right track for understanding how the mind makes sense of the world and how basic features of the human mind and cognition are related to scientific theory and practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship from the history of ideas, cognitive science, and the history and philosophy of science, this book helps readers understand the fundamental historical and philosophical relationship between common sense and science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Common Sense and Scientific Thinking before Copernicus; 2. The Challenge of Modern Science and Philosophy; 3. Common Notions, Sens Commun: Herbert of Cherbury and Renè Descartes; 4. Hobbes, Locke, and Innatist Responses to Skepticism and Materialism; 5. Common Sense in Early Eighteenth-Century Thought; 6. Common Sense and Moral Sense: Buffier, Hutcheson, and Butler; 7. Common Sense and the Science of Man in Enlightenment; Scotland: Turnbull and Kames; 8. Common Sense, Science, and the Public Sphere: The Philosophy of Thomas Reid; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Klappentext

Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demonstrates how a diverse array of neglected early modern thinkers turn out to have been on the right track for understanding how the mind makes sense of the world and how basic features of the human mind and cognition are related to scientific theory and practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship from the history of ideas, cognitive science, and the history and philosophy of science, this book helps readers understand the fundamental historical and philosophical relationship between common sense and science.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Common Sense and Scientific Thinking before Copernicus; 2. The Challenge of Modern Science and Philosophy; 3. Common Notions, Sens Commun: Herbert of Cherbury and Renè Descartes; 4. Hobbes, Locke, and Innatist Responses to Skepticism and Materialism; 5. Common Sense in Early Eighteenth-Century Thought; 6. Common Sense and Moral Sense: Buffier, Hutcheson, and Butler; 7. Common Sense and the Science of Man in Enlightenment; Scotland: Turnbull and Kames; 8. Common Sense, Science, and the Public Sphere: The Philosophy of Thomas Reid; Epilogue; Notes; Index.