Medical empiricism and philosophy of human nature in the 17th and 18th century / / edited by Claire Crignon, Carsten Zelle, and Nunzio Allocca.
The contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature in the 17th century and the role played by philosophical anthropology in the 18th century. Divided into three parts, “1. The Dispute between Metaphys...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2013. ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Claire Crignon , Carsten Zelle and Nunzio Allocca
- The Debate about methodus medendi during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century in England: Modern Philosophical Readings of Classical Medical Empiricism in Bacon, Nedham, Willis and Boyle / Claire Crignon
- The Status of Leibniz’ Medical Experiments: A Provisional Empiricism? / Anne-Lise Rey
- Whytt and the Idea of Power: Physiological Evidence as a Challenge to the Eighteenth-Century Criticism of the Notion of Power / Claire Etchegaray
- Learning to Read Nature: Francis Bacon’s Notion of Experiential Liter- acy (Experientia Literata) / Guido Giglioni
- Of Snails and Horsetails: Anatomical Empiricism in the Early Modern Period / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
- Experiment, Observation, Self-observation. Empiricism and the ‘Rea-sonable Physicians’ of the Early Enlightenment / Carsten Zelle
- Writing Cases and Casuistic Reasoning in Karl Philipp Moritz’ Journal ofEmpirical Psychology / Yvonne Wübben
- Indices / Claire Crignon , Carsten Zelle and Nunzio Allocca.