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This volume, commenced some years ago, in the form of lectures, addressed to pupils in a female seminary, is chiefly the labour of thought and experience. As a teacher, the author felt the necessity of a work on this important branch of science, adapted to the instruction of her own sex, and sought to draw from her own resources, as well as from the records of history and biography, such illustrations as might assist the mind in making a practical application of the leading facts of mental philosophy. This work, is based on the truth as we find it revealed in the sacred scriptures, and is not intended to enter into the intricate disquisitions of the metaphysical schools. The author, has not, however, been negligent in searching into the opinions of some of the best writers on this branch of science, and hopes, if not in perfect agreement, at least she will not be found in any great discordance with the sentiments of the wisest and the most esteemed. Truth, as it is found in reason and revelation is her object.
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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.
Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science
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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- World history --- Politics
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