Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of EmpiricismThe 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The Origins of the ExperimentalSpeculative Distinction | 19 |
Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century | 43 |
Experimental Natural History | 75 |
Mathematical Experimental Philosophy | 111 |
Experimental Philosophy in France | 149 |
Experimental Natural Philosophy and Moral Philosophy | 176 |
Other editions - View all
Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism Peter R. Anstey,Alberto Vanzo Limited preview - 2023 |
Common terms and phrases
according appeared applied approach arts attempt authors Bacon Baconian bodies Boyle Boyle’s called causes century chapter claim concepts concerning contrast course Critical demonstrative derived Descartes discipline discussion distinction early modern edition eighteenth emergence empirical empiricism empiricism and rationalism empiricists Essay established evidence example experiment and observation experimental natural experimental philosophy experiments fact foundation Francis Hooke human Hume hypotheses important Italy John Kant Kant’s Kantian Keill knowledge later laws lectures Leibniz Locke material mathematics mechanics metaphysics method mind moral philosophy movement natural history natural philosophy Newton notion objects observations original Oxford particular period physics position practical principles priori provides psychology published qualities rationalism rationalists reason reference regard relation role Royal Society sense seventeenth speculative philosophy Tennemann term theory things true truth turn understanding University Wolff writings