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  • Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason
  • Written by author Jan W. Wojcik
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, March 1997
  • A study of Boyle's epistemology, revealing the theological context of his views on reason's limits.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1Things above Reason: Medieval Context and Concepts27
Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria28
Thomas Aquinas29
Double-truth and the Law of Noncontradiction31
Lorenzo Valla35
Two Approaches Summarized36
Anglicans and Puritans37
2The Threat of Socinianism42
The Protestant Background42
Early Socinianism43
The "Englishing" of Socnianism47
Boyle's Response to Socinianism (c. 1652)55
Other Responses to Socinianism59
Conclusions73
3Predestination Controversies76
Arminians versus Calvinists77
Doctrinal Issues79
Boyle's Seraphic Love82
Howe's Reconcileableness and Hammond's Pacifick Discourse85
4Theology and the Limits of Reason95
Style of the Scriptures95
Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion97
Things above Reason100
The Charge of Enthusiasm and Advices108
Conclusions113
5Philosophies of Nature and their Theological Implications121
The Aristotelians123
The Cambridge Platonists126
The "Chymical" Tradition129
6Sources of Knowledge137
Scriptural Revelation137
Personal Revelation141
Abstract Reason and Innate Ideas144
Sensory Perception146
7The Limits of Reason and Knowledge of Nature151
The Incomprehensible, the Inexplicable, and the Unsociable152
The Task of the Natural Philosopher161
Evaluation of Alternative Theories of Matter168
The Question of the Falsity of Rejected Hypotheses175
The Question of the Truth of the Corpuscular Hypothesis179
Advantages of the Corpuscular Hypothesis180
Some Things not Explicable By any Means184
The Question of Progress in Natural Philosophy186
8Boyle's Voluntarism and the Limits of Reason189
The Seventeenth-Century Background190
Specific Aspects of Boyle's Voluntarism200
God's Will and Human Reason206
The Christian Virtuoso's Final Reward210
Conclusion212
Bibliography220
Index239


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