Cartesian Empiricisms

Author : Mihnea Dobre,Tammy Nyden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400776906

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Cartesian Empiricisms by Mihnea Dobre,Tammy Nyden Pdf

Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image of Cartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed to meet challenges posed by the new science’s innovative methods. Studies in this volume argue that far from being strangers to experiment, many Cartesians used and integrated it into their natural philosophies. Chapter 1 reviews the historiographies of early modern philosophy, science, and Cartesianism and their recent critiques. The first part of the volume explores various Cartesian contexts of experiment: the impact of French condemnations of Cartesian philosophy in the second half of the seventeenth century; the relation between Cartesian natural philosophy and the Parisian academies of the 1660s; the complex interplay between Cartesianism and Newtonianism in the Dutch Republic; the Cartesian influence on medical teaching at the University of Duisburg; and the challenges chemistry posed to the Cartesian theory of matter. The second part of the volume examines the work of particular Cartesians, such as Henricus Regius, Robert Desgabets, Jacques Rohault, Burchard de Volder, Antoine Le Grand, and Balthasar Bekker. Together these studies counter scientific revolution narratives that take rationalism and empiricism to be two mutually exclusive epistemological and methodological paradigms. The volume is thus a helpful instrument for anyone interested both in the histories of early modern philosophy and science, as well as for scholars interested in new evaluations of the historiographical tools that framed our traditional narratives.

Author : Zvi Biener,Eric Schliesser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199337095

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Newton and Empiricism by Zvi Biener,Eric Schliesser Pdf

A volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists.

Author : Koen Vermeir,Jonathan Regier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319410753

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Boundaries, Extents and Circulations by Koen Vermeir,Jonathan Regier Pdf

This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much needed antidote. The contributing chapters examine the period’s staggering richness of spatiality: the geometrical, geographical, perceptual and elemental conceptualizations of space that abounded. The goal is to begin to reconstruct the amalgam of “spaces” which co-existed and cross-fertilized in the period’s many disciplines and visions of nature. Our volume will be a valuable resource for historians of science, philosophy and art, and for cultural and literary theorists.

Author : Thomas M. Lennon,Patricia Ann Easton
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041594479

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The Cartesian Empiricism of François Bayle by Thomas M. Lennon,Patricia Ann Easton Pdf

Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780192893833

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History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 by Andrea Sangiacomo Pdf

This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192647221

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History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 by Mordechai Feingold Pdf

This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Author : Andrea Strazzoni,Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9791221501698

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Reading Descartes. Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning by Andrea Strazzoni,Marco Sgarbi Pdf

This volume takes cue from the idea that the thought of no philosopher can be understood without considering it as the result of a lively dialogue with other thinkers. On this ground, it addresses the ways in which René Descartes’s philosophy evolved and was progressively understood by intellectuals from different contexts and eras, either by considering direct interlocutors of Descartes such as Isaac Beeckman and Elisabeth of Bohemia, thinkers who developed upon his ideas and on particular topics as Nicolas Malebranche or Thomas Willis, those who adapted his overall methodology in developing new systems of knowledge as Johannes Clauberg and Pierre-Sylvain Régis, and contemporary thinkers from continental and analytic traditions like Emanuele Severino and Peter Strawson.

Author : Vlad Alexandrescu
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786068266893

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Journal of Early Modern Studies - Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2014) by Vlad Alexandrescu Pdf

ISBN: 978-606-8266-88-6 (paper) ISBN: 978-606-8266-89-3 (online)

Author : Steven Nadler,Tad M. Schmaltz,Delphine Antoine-Mahut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192517203

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The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism by Steven Nadler,Tad M. Schmaltz,Delphine Antoine-Mahut Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on René Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence) and philosophy, with chapters on his epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics. The chapters of the second part are devoted to the defense, development and modification of Descartes's ideas by later generations of Cartesian philosophers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and elsewhere. The third and final part considers the opposition to Cartesian philosophy by other philosophers, as well as by civil, ecclesiastic, and academic authorities. This handbook provides an extensive overview of Cartesianism - its doctrines, its legacies and its fortunes - in the period based on the latest research.

Author : Andrea Strazzoni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030198787

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Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution by Andrea Strazzoni Pdf

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding the first experimental cabinet at a European University in 1675. The author goes beyond the familiar image of De Volder as a forerunner of Newtonianism in Continental Europe. He consults neglected materials, including handwritten sources, and takes into account new historiographical categories. His investigation maps the thought of an author who did not sit with an univocal philosophical school, but critically dealt with all the ‘major’ philosophers and scientists of his age: from Descartes to Newton, via Spinoza, Boyle, Huygens, Bernoulli, and Leibniz. It explores the way De Volder’s un-systematic thought used, rejected, and re-shaped their theories and approaches. In addition, the title includes transcriptions of De Volder's teaching materials: disputations, dictations, and notes. Insightful analysis combined with a trove of primary source material will help readers gain a new perspective on a thinker so far mostly ignored by scholars. They will find a thoughtful figure who engaged with early modern science and developed a place that fostered experimental philosophy.

Author : Wiep van Bunge
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004383593

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From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution by Wiep van Bunge Pdf

Thirteen chapters on individual authors such as Spinoza, Bayle, Van Effen and Hemsterhuis, and on schools of thought such as Dutch Cartesianism, Newtonianism and Wolffianism. It also addresses the early Dutch reception of Kant.

Author : Anil Gupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195345924

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Empiricism and Experience by Anil Gupta Pdf

This book offers a novel account of the relationship of experience to knowledge. The account builds on the intuitive idea that our ordinary perceptual judgments are not autonomous, that an interdependence obtains between our view of the world and our perceptual judgments. Anil Gupta shows in this important study that this interdependence is the key to a satisfactory account of experience. He uses tools from logic and the philosophy of language to argue that his account of experience makes available an attractive and feasible empiricism.

Author : Siegfried Bodenmann,Anne-Lise Rey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319698601

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What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist? by Siegfried Bodenmann,Anne-Lise Rey Pdf

This book begins with an observation: At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. Hence the central question of this volume: What does it mean to conduct empirical science in early modern Europe? How can we catch the elusive figure of the empiricist? Our answer focuses on the practices established by representative scholars. This approach allows us to demonstrate two things. First, that empiricism is not a monolith but exists in a plurality of forms. Today’s understanding of the empirical sciences was gradually shaped by the exchanges among scholars combining different traditions, world views and experimental settings. Second, the long proclaimed antagonism between empiricism and rationalism is not the whole story. Our case studies show that a very fruitful exchange between both systems of thought occurred. It is a story of integration, appropriation and transformation more than one of mere opposition. We asked twelve authors to explore these fascinating new facets of empiricisms. The plurality of their voices mirrors the multiple faces of the concept itself. Every contribution can be understood as a piece of a much larger puzzle. Together, they help us better understand the emergence of empiricism and the inventiveness of the scientific enterprise.

Author : Marina Montesano
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783039289592

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Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic by Marina Montesano Pdf

Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.

Author : Jacqueline Broad,Karen Detlefsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192538222

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Women and Liberty, 1600-1800 by Jacqueline Broad,Karen Detlefsen Pdf

There have been many different historical-intellectual accounts of the shaping and development of concepts of liberty in pre-Enlightenment Europe. This volume is unique for addressing the subject of liberty principally as it is discussed in the writings of women philosophers, and as it is theorized with respect to women and their lives, during this period. The volume covers ethical, political, metaphysical, and religious notions of liberty, with some chapters discussing women's ideas about the metaphysics of free will, and others examining the topic of women's freedom (or lack thereof) in their moral and personal lives as well as in the public socio-political domain. In some cases, these topics are situated in relation to the emergence of the concept of autonomy in the late eighteenth century, and in others, with respect to recent feminist theorizing about relational autonomy and internalized oppression. Many of the chapters draw upon a wide range of genres, including polemical texts, poetry, plays, and other forms of fiction, as well as standard philosophical treatises. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how crucial it is to recover the too-long forgotten views of female and women-friendly male philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the process of recovering these voices, our understanding of philosophy in the early modern period is not only expanded, but also significantly enhanced, toward a more accurate and gender-inclusive history of our discipline.