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How did we come to have a scientific culture ¿ one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.

Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux's famous early translation of the "Meditations, " this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context. Touches on all of the major themes of the Meditations, including the mind-body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of th...

Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux's famous early translation of the "Meditations, " this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context. Touches on all of the major themes of the Meditations, including the mind-body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of th...

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint­ ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took plac...

This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.

This is the first comprehensive examination of Descartes' complete philosophical system.