Abstract

GAMEZ PEREZ, Carlos  and  CAMPO ECHEVARRIA, Juan Francisco. John Banville’s Scientific Trilogy: An Mapping of Episteme Change through Literature. Humanidades (Montevideo. En línea) [online]. 2019, n.6, pp.245-264.  Epub Dec 01, 2019. ISSN 1510-5024.  https://doi.org/10.25185/6.10.

The paper shows the power of John Banville’s trilogy, Doctor Copernicus, Kepler y The Newton Letter, focused on the scientific revolution, to analyze epistemologic processes. It is especially interested in some samples of famous epistomologic complex processes in the histoty of ideas: a) the epistemic transition from the Early Modern Period to Enlightnment; b) the epistemologic issues of historiography to rebuild the past with confidence, becoming a hard science; c) the controversy around innatism, which involved sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Hobbes. All reasoning developed in the paper is based on Banville’s trilogy.

Keywords : scientific revolution; literature; John Banville; epistemology; episteme; innatism.

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