On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
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- ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISCOVERY, CHAPTERS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL;
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER II. Plato.
- CHAPTER III. Additional Remarks on Plato.
- CHAPTER IV. Aristotle.
- CHAPTER V. Additional Remarks on Aristotle.
- CHAPTER VI. The Later Greeks.
- CHAPTER VII. The Romans.
- CHAPTER VIII. Arabian Philosophers.
- CHAPTER IX. The Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.
- CHAPTER X. The Innovators of the Middle Ages.
- CHAPTER XI. The Innovators of the Middle Ages—continued.
- CHAPTER XII. The Revival of Platonism.
- CHAPTER XIII. The Theoretical Reformers of Science.
- CHAPTER XIV. The Practical Reformers of Science.
- CHAPTER XV. Francis Bacon.
- CHAPTER XVI. Additional Remarks on Francis Bacon.
- CHAPTER XVII. From Bacon to Newton.
- CHAPTER XVIII. Newton.
- CHAPTER XIX. Locke and his French Followers.
- CHAPTER XX. The Reaction against the Sensational School.
- CHAPTER XXI. Further Advance of the Sensational School. M. Auguste Comte.
- CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Mill's Logic[264].
- CHAPTER XXIII. Political Economy as an Inductive Science.
- CHAPTER XXIV. Modern German Philosophy[295].
- CHAPTER XXV. The Fundamental Antithesis as it exists in the Moral World.
- CHAPTER XXVI. Of the "Philosophy of the Infinite."
- CHAPTER XXVII. Sir William Hamilton on Inertia and Weight.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. Influence of German Systems of Philosophy in Britain.
- CHAPTER XXIX. Necessary Truth is progressive. Objections considered.
- CHAPTER XXX. The Theological Bearing of the Philosophy of Discovery.
- CHAPTER XXXI. Man's Knowledge of God.
- CHAPTER XXXII. Analogies of Physical and Religious Philosophy.
- APPENDIX.
- Appendix A. OF THE PLATONIC THEORY OF IDEAS.
- Appendix B. ON PLATO'S SURVEY OF THE SCIENCES.
- Appendix BB. ON PLATO'S NOTION OF DIALECTIC.
- Appendix C. OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS ACCORDING TO PLATO.
- Appendix D. CRITICISM OF ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF INDUCTION.
- Appendix E. ON THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTITHESIS OF PHILOSOPHY.
- Appendix F. REMARKS ON A REVIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES.
- Appendix G. OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF HYPOTHESES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE.
- Appendix H. ON HEGEL'S CRITICISM OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA.
- APPENDIX TO THE MEMOIR ON HEGEL'S CRITICISM OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA.
- Appendix K. DEMONSTRATION THAT ALL MATTER IS HEAVY.
- WORKS BY WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D. F.R.S. MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
- New Books and New Editions, Published by John W. Parker and Son, West Strand.
- Annotated Edition of the English Poets, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND MEMOIRS, Historical, Biographical and Critical, BY ROBERT BELL.
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