From Myth to the Modern Mind

The Author: Richard H. Schlagel is Elton Professor of Philosophy at the George Washington University. Having earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Springfield College, he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. In addition to numerous articles on the philosophy of science in professional journals, the first edition of Animism to Archimedes, Volume I of From Myth to the Modern Mind: A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought was published by Peter Lang in 1985. Contextual Realism: A Meta-physical Framework for Modern Science was published in 1986 by Paragon House.

Contents: The purpose of the present volume is to contrast scientific rationalism with the earlier animistic, mythopoetic, and theogonic traditions, tracing the origins and the growth of scientific thought in the works of the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle, to Archimedes.