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Locke’s experimental philosophy

Peter R. Anstey: John Locke and natural philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 256pp, $65 HB

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Notes

  1. My reference with a number sign and two numerals are to letter number, Book, and page number in de Beer’s edition of Locke’s correspondence (Locke 1976–1989). References with three arabic numerals are to Nidditch’s edition of Locke’s Essay (Locke 1975) and references of two numerals after ‘NO’ are to Book and Aphorism of Bacon’s New Organon. I am grateful to Martin Curd for helpful comments.

  2. A related niggle: Anstey, following William Newman and Lawrence Principe, calls seventeenth-century chemistry ‘chymestry,’ in order to highlight its continuity with seventeenth-century alchemy. Given the continuity in methods and subject matter between seventeenth-century chemistry and recent work in the field, they could save themselves some fussiness by just calling the relevant disciplines ‘chemistry.’ If Boyle could call himself a ‘chemist,’ we can call him that, too.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Bowdoin College, 8400 College Station, Brunswick, ME, 04011, USA

    Matthew Stuart

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Quadrangle A14, Sydney, NSW, 2006, USA

    Keith Campbell

  3. Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Michael Jacovides

  4. Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand

    Peter Anstey

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Stuart, M., Campbell, K., Jacovides, M. et al. Locke’s experimental philosophy. Metascience 22, 1–22 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9701-2

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