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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 epistemological stances and debates to clashes of political and theological ideologies. The present volume suggests that with an awareness of this context, it is now worth turning back to questions of the epistemic content itself. The contributors to the present collection were invited to explore how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and eventually how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction
Tamás Demeter
Reason and Common Culture in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme
Peter Dear
Devices and Epistemic Values
Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism
Matteo Valleriani
Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera Obscura
Daniel Schmal
The Epistemology of Testimony
Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth
John Henry
Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles
Falk Wunderlich
Religion and Inquiry
Kepler's Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World
Giora Hon
Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry
Tamás Demeter
The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Eighteenth-Century Hungary
János Tanács
Values in Controversy
Newton's Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours and Diagrams: A Radical Historical Interpretation
Gábor Áron Zemplén
The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry
Axel Gelfert
The Methods and Epistemic Virtues of a 'Science of Man'
Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed
Thomas Sturm
The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions
Eric Schliesser
Ethics in Epistemology
Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge
Sorana Corneanu
Spinoza's Ethics: A Dominion within a Dominion
Ruth Lorand
What was Kant's Critical Philosophy Critical of?
Catherine Wilson
Index
