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Originally published in 1969. Since the seventeenth century the kind of knowledge afforded by mathematical physics has come more and more to furnish mankind with an ideal for all knowledge. The ideal …

Originally published in 1969. Since the seventeenth century the kind of knowledge afforded by mathematical physics has come more and more to furnish mankind with an ideal for all knowledge. The ideal …

Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor’ of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these …

The philosophy of biology should move to the center of the philosophy of science – a place it has not been accorded since the time of Mach. Physics was the paradigm of science, and its shadow falls …

No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating …

In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on t …