On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
On the Philosophy of Discovery, published in 1860 by William Whewell, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, completes his great series on the inductive sciences. Most of the book is a critical history of ideas about how knowledge of nature is gained, from Plato and Aristotle through the later Greeks, the Romans, the Arabian philosophers and the schoolmen to the reformers of science, Francis Bacon, Newton, Locke and his French followers. Whewell ends with Auguste Comte and a close reply to John Stuart Mill's Logic, defending his own view that discovery requires the mind to bring new conceptions to the facts. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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