Overview
- The only full-length study on the topic of Cartesian Empiricism
- Provides a comprehensive guide to over twenty-five seventeenth century Cartesians for whom experiment and observation played a key role
- Spans a wide range of Cartesian sciences, including physics, chemistry, medicine and psychology
- Spans a wide range of national contexts, including French, Dutch, German, and English
- Written by leading and emerging international scholars in the field
- Represents the most up-to-date research in the history of early modern philosophy
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 31)
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Keywords
- Advent of Newtonianism
- Cartesian Empiricisms
- Cartesian Experimentalism in 1660’s France
- Cartesian Natural Philosophers
- Cartesian Physics and Experimental Pedagogy
- Chemical Philosopher
- Dutch Cartesian Empiricism
- Empiricism Without Metaphysics
- Living Beings in German Medical Cartesianism
- Rohault’s Cartesian Physics
- Scientific Revolution
- The Spread of Cartesianism
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Cartesian Natural Philosophy: Receptions and Context
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Cartesian Natural Philosophers
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cartesian Empiricisms
Editors: Mihnea Dobre, Tammy Nyden
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7690-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7689-0Published: 13 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0580-4Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7690-6Published: 29 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern Philosophy, History of Science, History, general