La trilogía científica de John Banville: un mapeado del cambio de episteme a través de la literatura

Carlos Gámez Pérez; Juan Francisco Campo Echevarría

doi:10.25185/6.10

Authors

Carlos Gámez Pérez Universidad de Navarra, España https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3512-7680
Juan Francisco Campo Echevarría Càtedra del Dr. Bofill, Universitat de Girona, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9543-8803

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25185/6.10

Keywords:

Scientific revolution, Literature, John Banville, Epistemology, Episteme, Innatism

Abstract

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.

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