Conflicting values of inquiry : : ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe /

Conflicting values of inquiry : : ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe / / edited by Tamás Demeter, Kathryn Murphy and Claus Zittel.

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Historical research in previous decades has done a great deal to explore the social and political context of early modern natural and moral inquiries. Particularly since the publication of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985) several studies have attributed epistemolo...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Demeter, Tamás,
Murphy, Kathryn,
Zittel, Claus,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Intersections 37.
Physical Description:1 online resource (428 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction / Tamás Demeter
  • 1 Reason and Common Culture in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme / Peter Dear
  • 2 Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism / Matteo Valleriani
  • 3 Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera obscura / Dániel Schmal
  • 4 Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth / John Henry
  • 5 Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles / Falk Wunderlich
  • 6 Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World / Giora Hon
  • 7 Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry / Tamás Demeter
  • 8 The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Late Eighteenth-Century Hungary / János Tanács
  • 9 Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours, Categories, and Descriptions / Gábor Áron Zemplén
  • 10 The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry / Axel Gelfert
  • 11 Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed / Thomas Sturm
  • 12 The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions / Eric Schliesser
  • 13 Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge / Sorana Corneanu
  • 14 Spinoza’s Ethics: “A Dominion Within a Dominion” / Ruth Lorand
  • 15 What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? / Catherine Wilson
  • Index Nominum.

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