The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment

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An introductory survey of the main ideas of leading Western thinkers from the 17th to the 19th centuries-an era of profound intellectual, scientific, religious, and philosophical change. This period offered discoveries that went smaller, larger, and farther than humans had ever experienced before. As a result, intellectuals confronted questions about the role of experience in knowledge, about what things are, about our place in things, and about the limits of what we might know or say. Emphasis on the historical development of philosophical positions, especially the articulation of views in reaction to the ideas of others, the interactions between "philosophy" and "science," the development and consequences of the mechanical philosophy, and the veil of perception. GCP Coding : (ROC) (CRI).