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This volume explores the relevance, richness, and influence of empiricism in 16th- and 17th-century European philosophy. It features original essays from leading scholars of early modern empiricism.
Early modern philosophy is often divided by the categories of Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. This volume contends that there is a rich tradition of empiricism in early modern continental Europe. Each chapter provides a case study from 16th- and 17th-century history of philosophy. These studies range from epistemology to natural philosophy and from the history of scientific institutions to experimental philosophy. The chapters complement historical analyses with methodological and historiographical reflections on notions traditionally associated with empiricism.
Empiricism in Early Modern Continental Philosophy will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in the history of early modern philosophy and the history of science.
Contents
1. Introduction. On Continental Empiricism: A Reflection on Historiographical Labels Rodolfo Garau, Arnaud Pelletier 2. Pietro Pomponazzi's Epistemic and Experiential Empiricism Marco Sgarbi 3. Girolamo Cardano and Giulio Cesare Vanini on the Epistemological Role of Experience Giuliano Mori 4. Galileo's Telescopic Observations: Crux and Crisis of Aristotelian 'Empiricism' Philippe Hamou 5. Isaac Beeckman's Empirical Turn: A Speculative Mechanical Philosopher's Dedication to Astronomical Observation Klaas van Berkel 6. A Baconian Science of Sounds: Marin Mersennes's Echometry Dana Jalobeanu 7. In Defence of "Empiricism": Practical Knowledge and Epistemology. A Case Study on Gassendi Rodolfo Garau 8. Descartes, Steno and the Anatomy of the Earth: An Epistemological Inquiry Daniel Garber 9. "The French Naturalists Are More Discursive, yn Active or Experimentall": Deconstructing the Trope that Early Modern French Natural Philosophers were Cartesians Engaged in Speculative Philosophy Sophie Roux 10. "Provando e riprovando": The Experimental Practice of the Accademia del Cimento Giulia Giannini and Elisabetta Rossi 11. A Challenge for Historiographical Categories: Cartesian Empiricism as a Form of Continental Empiricism Mihnea Dobre 12. Proof by experiment in early modern England and France Peter R. Anstey 13. Leibniz and the Invention of Empiricism Arnaud Pelletier.
