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almafu_9959236251302883
Format:
1 online resource (428 p.)
ISBN:
90-04-28255-6
Series Statement:
Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, Volume 37
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material --
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Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction /
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1 Reason and Common Culture in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme /
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2 Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism /
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3 Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera obscura /
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4 Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth /
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5 Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles /
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6 Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World /
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7 Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry /
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8 The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Late Eighteenth-Century Hungary /
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9 Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours, Categories, and Descriptions /
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10 The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry /
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11 Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed /
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12 The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions /
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13 Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge /
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14 Spinoza’s Ethics: “A Dominion Within a Dominion” /
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15 What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? /
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Index Nominum.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-34892-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-28170-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
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