Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1978 - 9/30/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


Locke's Theories of Scientific Knowledge and Natural Kinds

FAIN: FT-13925-78

Ruth M. Mattern
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205)

To examine in depth 3 possible interpretations of scientific generalizations which Locke discusses, and to study his theory of the "ideal" natural science, which relies on the possibility of scientific laws which can in principle be known a priori.