What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist? Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences /

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...

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Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 331
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ISBN:9783319698601
ISSN:0068-0346 ;
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Obsah:
  • Introduction (Siegfried BODENMANN & Anne-Lise REY)
  • Part I. The Plurality of Empiricisms
  • Chapter 1. Four Methods of Empirical Inquiry in the Aftermath of Newton's Challenge (Eric SCHLIESSER)
  • Chapter 2. Fictitious Empiricism, Material Experiments (Marc RATCLIFF)
  • Part II. Newtonianism and non-Newtonianism empiricisms
  • Chapter 3. Experimentum crucis. Newton's Empiricism at the Crossroads (Philippe HAMOU)
  • Chapter 4. (The Experiments of Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (Anne-Lise REY)
  • Chapter 5. Empiricism as a Rhetoric of Legitimation (Siegfried BODENMANN)
  • Part III. Empiricism and Rationality
  • Chapter 6. Philosophical and Scientific Empiricism in the 18th Century (Catherine WILSON)
  • Chapter 7. Buffon's Natural History (Thierry HOQUET)
  • Chapter 8. What does it mean to be an Empiricist in Medicine? Baglivi's De praxi medica (1696) (Raphaële ANDRAULT)
  • Chapter 9. Empiricism and Certainty in Science (André CHARRAK)
  • Part IV. Reevaluation of the Label 'Empiricism'
  • Chapter 10. Was Early Eighteenth-Century Chemistry an Empirical Science? (Bernard JOLY)
  • Chapter 11. Conducting Observations and Tests (Christian LEDUC)
  • Chapter 12. From Locke to Materialism (Charles T. WOLFE).

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