The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin (English) Paperback Book

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Is presented as a chapter in the history of ideas from the ancient Greeks to our own time.

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"A discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and society. . . . The excellence of The Discovery of Time is unquestionable."—Martin Lebowitz, The Kenyon Review

Author Biography

Stephen Toulmin was University Professor Emeritus and Henry R. Luce Professor at University of Southern California, and author of, among other books, "Cosmopolis" and "The Uses of Argument".

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Authors' Foreword Introduction: The Problem of Historical Inference 1. Memories and Myths Chronicles and Genealogies Myths and Legends 2. Science without History Historical Cosmology in Miletos The Divorce of History from Philosophy Plato's Creator-Craftsman Aristotle's Eternal Universe Stoics and Epicureans The Limits of the Classical World-Picture The Beginnings of Natural History 3. The Authority of the Scriptures Christianity and History Fundamentalism and Allegory The New Chronology The Mediaeval World-Allegory The Dream of the Millennium 4. The Revival of Natural Philosophy The Fall of the World Descartes' Mathematical Philosophy The Theological Consequences of Cartesianism The Blueprints of Creation The Great Chain of Being The Eighteenth-Century Commonplaces 5. The Revival of Civil History The Birth of Historical Criticism Decay or Progress? The Customs of the Ages Human Nature and Social Change The Myth of the Social Contract Intimations of Progress 6. Time's Creative Hand Vico: the Mendel of History Kant and Cosmic Evolution Herder and the Development of Nature 7. The Earth Acquires a History The Epochs of Nature The Fact of Geological Change The Agents of Geological Change The Perspective of Indefinite Time The Historical Time-Barrier is Broken 8. The Background to Darwin Are There Fixed Species in Nature? The Temporal Sequence of Forms The Problem of Inheritance The Final Impasse 9. Life Acquires a Genealogy Darwin Recognizes His Problem The Creation of the 'Origin' The Structure of the 'Origin' The Scientific Objections Darwinism and Natural Theology 10. History and the Human Sciences The Recognition of Progressive Change Critical History and its Implications The Evolution of Humanity The Flux of Nature 11. Time and the Physical World The Evolution of Stars and Chemical Elements Astronomy and the Problem of Creation Truth, Hypothesis or Myth? Are the Laws of Nature Changing? Epilogue: Nature and History The Evolution of Ideas Index

Details ISBN0226808424 Author June Goodfield Language English ISBN-10 0226808424 ISBN-13 9780226808420 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 1982 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edition New edition Short Title DISCOVERY OF TIME REV/E Edition Description Revised Pages 280 DOI 10.1604/9780226808420 UK Release Date 1982-05-15 AU Release Date 1982-05-15 NZ Release Date 1982-05-15 US Release Date 1982-05-15 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 1982-05-15 DEWEY 529 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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