The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy

Selected Readings

Michael R. Matthews

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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
01 January 2023

Philosophy; History of ideas

Through a collection of works from key thinkers in natural philosophy, the second edition of The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy illuminates the central role scientific writing played in developing modern philosophical thought.

This revised and expanded edition includes many new translations and incorporates works by foundational eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers not in the first edition, including selections from works by Jean-Baptiste, le Rond d'Alembert, Denis Diderot, milie Du Chtelet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Priestley, Immanuel Kant, Carl Linnaeus, William Paley, and Charles Robert Darwin. These new additions provide students with a more comprehensive understanding of the scientific context in which the major philosophical works of the modern era were written and complement the selections from works by Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Ren Descartes, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton that are retained from the first edition.

By: Michael R. Matthews
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 287g
ISBN: 9781647920869
ISBN 10: 1647920868
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Matthews is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Reviews for The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings

"""Students will find it approachable and accessible, and they will have at their fingertips a good deal of material for discussion of theories of matter and method in seventeenth-century science."" -- Catherine Wilson, in Canadian Philosophical Review"