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"The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite being associated with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite being associated with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, David Hume and Christian Wolff. Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book provides new terms of reference for understanding early modern philosophy and science, and its eventual eclipse in the shadow of post-Kantian notions of empiricism and rationalism. Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism is an integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy which challenges the rationalism and empiricism historiography that has dominated Anglophone history of philosophy for more than a century"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-352) and index. |
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9781316516461 1316516466 |
| Index Number: | B72 |
| CLC: | B087-09 |
| Call Number: | B087-09/A625 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Part I: The rise of experimental philosophy. 1. The origins of the experimental/speculative distinction -- 2. Experimental philosophy in the seventeenth century -- 3. Experimental natural history -- Part II: The heyday of experimental philosophy. 4. Mathematical experimental philosophy -- 5. Experimental philosophy in France -- 6. Experimental philosophy and moral philosophy -- Part III: From experimental philosophy to empiricism. 7. Experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Germany -- 8. Kant and the genesis of empiricism -- 9. Reinhold, Tennemann, and the rise of empiricism -- Conclusion. |