Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vanzo, Alberto; Anstey, Peter R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume assembles scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429663628
• Artikelnr.: 55710949

Autorenporträt

Alberto Vanzo is an independent scholar based in the United Kingdom. He has been a Marie Curie fellow at the universities of Birmingham and Warwick. His research in early modern philosophy ranges from Kant to experimental philosophy. Peter Anstey FAHA is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He specializes in early modern philosophy with a focus on John Locke, Robert Boyle and the French Philosophes. He is the author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Alberto Vanzo and Peter R. Anstey
1. Francis Bacon on Sophists, Poets and other Forms of Self-Deceit (Or,
What can the Experimental Philosopher Learn from a Theoretically Informed
History of Philosophy?)
Dana Jalobeanu
2. Robert Boyle and the Intelligibility of the Corpuscular Philosophy
Peter R. Anstey
3. Cavendish and Boyle on Colour and Experimental Philosophy
Keith Allen
4. Appeals to Experience in Hobbes' Science of Politics
Tom Sorell
5. Locke and the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind
Philippe Hamou
6. Newton's Scaffolding: The Instrumental Roles of his Optical Hypotheses
Kirsten Walsh
7. What (Else) was Behind the Newtonian Rejection of 'Hypotheses'?
Catherine Wilson
8. From Experimental Natural Philosophy to Natural Religion: Action and
Contemplation in the Early Royal Society
Elliot Rossiter
9. Experimental Philosophy and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Alberto Vanzo
10. Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: A Non-Anglocentric Overview
Dmitri Levitin