商品簡介
Focusing on the three most notable progenitors of 17th-century experimental philosophy, Ben-Chaim explores the radical transformation that led to the emergence of modern cultures of empirical research in the natural sciences. He argues that the assumption that the views of Boyle, Locke, and Newton on empirical research primarily addressed the problem of knowledge, has led historians to underestimate the novelty of their common endeavor to redraw the relationship between the use of experiment on the one hand and the aim of philosophy on the other. A fundamental question he finds is whether knowledge about the world is really the aim of science. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dr Michael Ben-Chaim is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, USA.
