Part I
Historical Introduction

1 Origin of Epistemology and Scientific Method
 1.1 The Genesis of Universals and Epistemology
 1.2 The Method of Socrates
 1.3 Plato’s New Dialectic
 1.4 Aristotle’s Empirical Method and Logic
 1.5 Aristotle and the Joint Method
 1.6 Method in Greek Mathematics
2 The Marriage of Mathematics and Natural Science
 2.1 Galileo’s Role in Transforming the Objects of Knowledge
 2.2 Descartes
 2.3 Newton
3 The Rise of Consequentialism
 3.1 New Objects of Scientific Knowledge
 3.2 The Fall of Infallibilism
 3.3 The Rise and the Fall of Logical Positivism
 3.4 Kuhn’s Irrationalism