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Title Cartesian empiricisms / Mihnea Dobre, Tammy Nyden, editors
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2013

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Series Studies in history and philosophy of science ; volume 31
Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
Contents 1. Introduction -- Part I: Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Receptions and Context -- 2. Censorship, Condemnations, and the Spread of Cartesianism -- 3. Was there a Cartesian Experimentalism in 1660s France? -- 4. Dutch Cartesian Empiricism and the Advent of Newtonianism -- 5. Heat, Action, Perception: Models of Living Beings in German Medical Cartesianism -- 6. Could a Practicing Chemical Philosopher be a Cartesian? -- Part II: Cartesian Natural Philosophers -- 7. Empiricism Without Metaphysics: Regius Cartesian Natural Philosophy -- 8. Robert Desgabets on the Physics and Metaphysics of Blood Transfusion -- 9. Rohaults Cartesian Physics -- 10. De Volders Cartesian Physics and Experimental Pedagogy -- 11. The Cartesian Psychology of Antoine Le Grande -- 12. Mechanical Philosophy in an Enchanted World: Cartesian Empiricism in Balthasar Bekkers Radical Reformation -- Bio-Bibliographical Appendix for Cartesians Discussed in Part II
Summary 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 sciences 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Influence
SUBJECT Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast
Subject Philosophy, French.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Philosophy, French
Form Electronic book
Author Dobre, Mihnea, editor
Nyden-Bullock, Tammy, editor
ISBN 9789400776906
940077690X
9400776896
9789400776890