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Author : Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786068266923
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1402398515
Author : Andrew Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192869784
Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to the frame in which explanations are required, sought, and justified in natural science. Through addressing a wide range of Kant's works, Cooper challenges the claim that Kant's theory of science denies a developmental conception of nature and argues instead that it establishes a method by which natural historians can genuinely dispute historical claims and potentially come to consensus. This method, Cooper argues, can be used to expose serious flaws in Kant's own historical reasoning, including the formation and defence of his racist views. The book will be valuable to philosophers seeking to discern both the power and limitations of Kant's theory of science, and to historians of science working on the fractured landscape of eighteenth-century Newtonianism.
Author : Alberto Vanzo,Peter R. Anstey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429663628
Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was far from the only natural philosophical method on the scene. In particular, experimental philosophy was contrasted with and set against speculative philosophy and, in some quarters, was accused of tending to irreligion. This volume brings together ten scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science in order to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion in early modern Europe. The first six chapters of the book focus on the respective roles of experimental and speculative philosophy in individual seventeenth-century philosophers. They include Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Isaac Newton. The next two chapters deal with the relation between experimental philosophy and religion with a special focus on hypotheses and natural religion. The penultimate chapter takes a broader European perspective and examines the paucity of concerns with religion among Italian natural philosophers of the period. Finally, the concluding chapter draws all these individuals and themes together to provide a critical appraisal of recent scholarship on experimental philosophy. This book is the first collection of essays on the subject of early modern experimental philosophy. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern philosophy, science and religion.
Author : Rob DeSalle,Hans Bachor
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1643134426
A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History widens the palette and shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color are inextricably tied to what we see right before our eyes. Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, on and on, a vivid and vibrant celebrated continuum. These turns to represent reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it? Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine tuned understanding of it is vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.
Author : Lucian Petrescu
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786066970037
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Author : Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:$B123179
Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421421728
Weissenbacher, Stephen P. Weldon, and Tomoko Yoshida
Author : Koen Vermeir,Jonathan Regier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319410753
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 : Plínio Junqueira Smith,Sébastien Charles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319454245
This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, Pascal, Foucher, Huet, and Bayle. In addition, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the role of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern philosophy and a complete survey of the period. As a whole, the book offers a basis for a new, balanced assessment of the role played by scepticism in both its forms. Since Richard Popkin's works, there has been considerable interest in the role played by Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy. Comparatively, Academic Scepticism was much neglected by scholars, despite some scattered important contributions. Furthermore, a general assessment of the presence of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy is lacking. This book fills the void.
Author : Guido Giglioni,James A.T. Lancaster,Sorana Corneanu,Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319276410
This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought. It presents an original interpretation focused on the material conditions of nature and human life. In particular, coverage in the book is organized around the unifying theme of Bacon’s notion of appetite, which is considered in its natural, ethical, medical and political meanings. The book redefines the notions of experience and experiment in Bacon’s philosophy of nature, shows the important presence of Stoic themes in his work as well as provides an original discussion of the relationships between natural magic, prudence and political realism in his philosophy. Bringing together scholarly expertise from the history of philosophy, the history of science and the history of literature, this book presents readers with a rich and diverse contextualization of Bacon’s philosophy.
Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0231087942
Vols. 1-2 concern the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4, the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6, the 16th century, and vols. 7-8, the 17th century.
Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000569919
This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age, which was an era of colonisation, certainly marked a turning point in men and women’s relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now, a whole history of climatic disasters and of their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes, in particular, have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the ‘advancement of learning’. They have also obliged us to adapt, recycle and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation, preservation and resilience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? To this question, this book offers nuanced, contextualised and perceptive answers. Divided into three main sections ‘Extreme Conditions’, ‘Tempestuous Skies’, and ‘Biblical Calamities,' it deals with the major environmental issues of our time through the prism of early modern culture and literature.
Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0231087950
Author : Nicholas J. Wade
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262731290
This illustrated survey covers what Nicholas Wade calls the "observational era of vision," beginning with the Greek philosophers and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope in the late 1830s.