Cartesian Empiricisms

Author : Mihnea Dobre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940077690X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartesian Empiricisms written by Mihnea Dobre and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrea Strazzoni
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Descartes. Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning written by Andrea Strazzoni and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Zvi Biener
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199337098
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newton and Empiricism written by Zvi Biener and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first 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. Among the many significant contributions of the volume are a detailed engagement with Newton's optical writings, a careful contextualization of Newton's methods in seventeenth century context, a critical analysis of the ways in which Locke and Hume responded to Newton, and a history of the reception of Newton's methods in astronomy.

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192517201
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism written by Steven Nadler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Koen Vermeir
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331941075X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries, Extents and Circulations written by Koen Vermeir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cartesian Empiricism of François Bayle written by Thomas M. Lennon and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197671713
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Cartesian written by Steven Nadler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), an important but underappreciated (and understudied) follower of René Descartes (1596-1650) who made a major contribution to making Cartesianism the dominant philosophical paradigm of the seventeenth century. La Forge was a devoted and faithful, but not uncritical, disciple who defended, updated, and even corrected Descartes' metaphysics, physics, and physiology, both to move Cartesian system to greater internal coherence and to make it more consistent with the latest scientific developments.

Author : Siegfried Bodenmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319698605
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist? written by Siegfried Bodenmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192893831
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 written by Andrea Sangiacomo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0192647229
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.