TY - BOOK ID - 94146767 TI - Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy : Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles AU - Sorell, Tom AU - Rogers, GA AU - Kraye, Jill AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2010 SN - 9789048130771 9789048130788 9789048130764 9789400730809 PB - Dordrecht Springer Netherlands DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy KW - History of philosophy KW - Sociology of cultural policy KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) KW - History KW - wetenschapsgeschiedenis KW - cultureel erfgoed KW - filosofie KW - geschiedenis KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Science KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Epistemology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:94146767 AB - Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first principles. But pre-modern and early modern conceptions differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses of this difference by exploring the works of individual philosophers as well as philosophical movements and groupings of the period. Some of the figures are transitional, falling neatly on neither side of the allegiances usually marked by the scholastic/modern distinction. Among the philosophers whose views on scientia are surveyed are Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Gassendi, Locke, and Jungius. The contributors are among the best-known and most influential historians of early modern philosophy. ER -