What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist? Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences /
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| Summary: | IX, 297 p. 7 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69860-1 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Siegfried BODENMANN & Anne-Lise REY)
- Part I. The Plurality of Empiricisms
- Chapter 1. Four Methods of Empirical Inquiry in the Aftermath of Newton’s Challenge (Eric SCHLIESSER)
- Chapter 2. Fictitious Empiricism, Material Experiments (Marc RATCLIFF)
- Part II. Newtonianism and non-Newtonianism empiricisms
- Chapter 3. Experimentum crucis. Newton’s Empiricism at the Crossroads (Philippe HAMOU)
- Chapter 4. (The Experiments of Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande (Anne-Lise REY)
- Chapter 5. Empiricism as a Rhetoric of Legitimation (Siegfried BODENMANN)
- Part III. Empiricism and Rationality
- Chapter 6. Philosophical and Scientific Empiricism in the 18th Century (Catherine WILSON)
- Chapter 7. Buffon’s Natural History (Thierry HOQUET)
- Chapter 8. What does it mean to be an Empiricist in Medicine? Baglivi’s De praxi medica (1696) (Raphaële ANDRAULT)
- Chapter 9. Empiricism and Certainty in Science (André CHARRAK)
- Part IV. Reevaluation of the Label ‘Empiricism’
- Chapter 10. WasEarly Eighteenth-Century Chemistry an Empirical Science? (Bernard JOLY)
- Chapter 11. Conducting Observations and Tests (Christian LEDUC)
- Chapter 12. From Locke to Materialism (Charles T. WOLFE).