“The Philosophers and the Machine”: Philosophy of Mathematics and History of Science in Alexandre Koyré

Condé, Mauro L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61712-1_3

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“…Although Burtt's central thesis states that metaphysics (or the change from medieval to modern metaphysics) was the critical point in the construction of modern science, it is not very clear as to what he exactly means by metaphysics. Unlike Koyré, for whom metaphysics is linked to Cartesian mathesis universalis or the Platonic ideas that support the foundations of mathematics as the epicenter of the scientific revolution (Condé 2017), in Burtt, perhaps, one can understand metaphysics -almost in a cultural sensevirtually as a diffuse set of beliefs and values of a given historical period. Thus, for Burtt, modern science would be the result of this change of metaphysics or transformation of the beliefs of medieval society to those of modern society (Burtt 1925, 2).…”

Section: Burtt and The Language At The Service Of Metaphysicsmentioning

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The Language of the Scientific Revolution:

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2019

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This paper aims to demonstrate that a qualitative change in the use of language to codify social practices and technological developments was an essential point in the construction of the so-called scientific revolution. In other words, alongside the social and technological settings developing in the European context from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, the pragmatic-linguistic codifications that emerged in this process were essential for the construction of modern science. The role of language in this process, which is understood from this pragmatic viewpoint, is called here the linguistic thesis on the scientific revolution.

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Section: Burtt and The Language At The Service Of Metaphysicsmentioning

confidence: 99%