ABSTRACT

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

chapter 1|3 pages

A project within a project

chapter 2|3 pages

Teaching philosophy from the elements

chapter 3|7 pages

The autonomy of civil science

chapter 1|3 pages

A strained parallel

chapter 4|2 pages

The order of the parts of science

chapter 2|4 pages

Reason, science and human improvement

chapter 3|4 pages

The conditions of science

chapter 4|2 pages

Logic-book science?

chapter 1|2 pages

'Demonstration'

chapter 2|5 pages

Science, truth and convention

chapter 3|5 pages

Old logic, new science

chapter 1|4 pages

The disclosure of universal things

chapter 2|2 pages

Motion and the 'several parts of science'

chapter 3|2 pages

Universal things adequately defined?

chapter 4|5 pages

Geometry and motion

part VI|1 pages

Motion, Phantasms and the Objects of Sense

chapter 1|4 pages

The explanation of appearance

chapter 2|2 pages

Sentient and insentient bodies

chapter 3|7 pages

Objects of sense

chapter 1|5 pages

Phantasms and the succession of phantasms

chapter 2|4 pages

Sense, appetite and passion

chapter 4|4 pages

The succession of the passions and action

part VIII|1 pages

The Pursuit of Felicity and the Good of Survival

chapter 1|3 pages

Egoism

chapter 2|3 pages

War and the free pursuit of felicity

chapter 3|2 pages

Egoism and the avoidability of war

chapter 4|3 pages

Hobbes's sense of 'moral'

chapter 5|3 pages

An acceptable concept of morality?

chapter 1|3 pages

The dangers of visible virtue

chapter 2|4 pages

Making it safe for morality

chapter 3|5 pages

Safety at what price?

part X|1 pages

Sedition, Submission and Science

chapter 1|5 pages

'Heads of pretence to rebellion'

chapter 3|3 pages

Civil science as exemplary science

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