Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof: The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Author:   W. A. Wallace
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   1992 ed.
Volume:   137
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9780792315773


Pages:   333
Publication Date:   30 June 1992
Format:   Hardback
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Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof: The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics


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The problem of Galileo's logical methodology has long interested scholars. In this volume, the author offers a solution that is backed by documentary evidence. His analysis starts with an early notebook Galileo wrote at Pisa, appropriating a Jesuit professor's exposition of the ""Posterior Analytics"" of Aristotle, and ends with one of the last letters Galileo wrote, stating that in logic he had been a Peripatetic all his life. The author unearths the logic course from which the notebook was excerpted, then proceeds to show how its terminology and methodology continue to surface in Galileo's later writings in which he founds his new sciences of the heavens and of local motion. The result should be of interest not only to Galileo's scholars and logicians, philosophers and historians, but to anyone interested in the epistemic roots of modern science.

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Author:   W. A. Wallace
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1992 ed.
Volume:   137
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   1.540kg
ISBN:  

9780792315773


ISBN 10:   0792315774
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   30 June 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Galileo’s Logical Methodology.- 1. Method, Logic, and Science.- 2. Assessments of Galileo’s Methodology.- 3. Method in the Greek and Latin Traditions.- 4. The Setting for Galileo’s Methodological Terminology.- 5. Logica Docens and Logica Utens.- Notes.- Logica Docens.- 2: The Understanding of Logic Implicit in Ms 27.- 3: Science and Opinion as Understood in Ms 27.- 4: Demonstration and Its Requirements in Ms 27.- Logica Utens.- 5: Galileo’s Search for a New Science of the Heavens.- 6: Galileo’s New Sciences of Mechanics and Local Motion.- Epilogue.- Concordance of English and Latin Editions.- Index of Terms.- Index of Names.

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