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Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason

Jan W. Wojcik
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      In this study of Robert Boyle's epistemology, Jan W. Wojcik reveals the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. After arguing that a correct interpretation of his views on 'things above reason' depends upon reading his works in the context of theological controversies in seventeenth-century England, Professor Wojcik details exactly how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable - affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know. Also covered in detail is Boyle's belief that God had deliberately limited the human intellect in order to reserve a full knowledge of both theology and natural philosophy for the afterlife.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jan W. Wojcik EAN: 9780521560290 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 520 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-03-28 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      History of science, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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      In this study of Robert Boyle's epistemology, Jan W. Wojcik reveals the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. After arguing that a correct interpretation of his views on 'things above reason' depends upon reading his works in the context of theological controversies in seventeenth-century England, Professor Wojcik details exactly how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable - affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know. Also covered in detail is Boyle's belief that God had deliberately limited the human intellect in order to reserve a full knowledge of both theology and natural philosophy for the afterlife.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jan W. Wojcik EAN: 9780521560290 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 520 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-03-28 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      History of science, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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