Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures Book

Preface. Part I: Witches and Witch-Hunters. 1. Two Stories About Evil: Christianity and the Creation of Witches. 2. The Tamblyn Lectures: De Praestigiis Daemonum: Early Modern Witchcraft: Some Philosophical Reflections. Part II: Philosophy and Science from Leibniz to Kant. 3.Leibniz' Monads: A Heritage of Gnosticism and a Source of Rational Science. 4. Rationalism in Modern Science: d'Alembert and the 'esprit simpliste'. 5. Hume's Scepticism. 6. Husserl's Critique of Hume's Notion of Distinctions of Reason. 7. The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP. 8. Kant's Theory of Musical Sound: An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science. 9. Kant's Dialectic and the Logic of Illusion. Part III: Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science. 10. The Hypothetico-Deductive Model of Scientific Theories: A Sympathetic Disclaimer. 11. Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy. 12. Sciences and Pseudosciences: An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation. 13. The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930-1962.