Galileo, human knowledge and the book of nature : method replaces metaphysics / Joseph C. Pitt.
Pubblicazione:
Dordrecht [etc.] : Kluwer, c1992.
Descrizione fisica:
XVI, 201 p. ; 23 cm
Serie:
The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ; 50
Contiene:
Indice: Table of contents. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Galileo as scientist and as philosopher and the emergence of mathematical physics in the 17. century 2. Galileo on God, mathematics, certainty, and the nature and possibility of human knowledge 3. The limits of knowledge: mathematics and methodological principles 4. The content of knowledge 5. Evidence: the basis of knowledge 6. Galileo's epistemology as the basis for a theory of the growth of knowledge. Notes. Works consulted. Index