This volume explores the relevance, richness, and influence of empiricism in 16th- and 17th-century European philosophy. It features original essays from leading scholars of early modern empiricism.
Early modern philosophy is often divided by the categories of Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. This volume contends that there is a rich tradition of empiricism in early modern continental Europe. Each chapter provides a case study from 16th- and 17th-century history of philosophy. These studies range from epistemology to natural philosophy and from the history of scientific institutions to experimental philosophy. The chapters complement historical analyses with methodological and historiographical reflections on notions traditionally associated with empiricism.
Empiricism in Early Modern Continental Philosophy will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in the history of early modern philosophy and the history of science.
This volume explores the relevance, richness, and influence of empiricism in 16th- and 17th-century European philosophy. It features original essays from leading scholars of early modern empiricism.
1. Introduction. On Continental Empiricism: A Reflection on
Historiographical Labels Rodolfo Garau, Arnaud Pelletier
2. Pietro
Pomponazzis Epistemic and Experiential Empiricism Marco Sgarbi
3. Girolamo
Cardano and Giulio Cesare Vanini on the Epistemological Role of Experience
Giuliano Mori
4. Galileos Telescopic Observations: Crux and Crisis of
Aristotelian Empiricism Philippe Hamou
5. Isaac Beeckmans Empirical Turn:
A Speculative Mechanical Philosophers Dedication to Astronomical Observation
Klaas van Berkel
6. A Baconian Science of Sounds: Marin Mersenness Echometry
Dana Jalobeanu
7. In Defence of "Empiricism": Practical Knowledge and
Epistemology. A Case Study on Gassendi Rodolfo Garau
8. Descartes, Steno and
the Anatomy of the Earth: An Epistemological Inquiry Daniel Garber
9. The
French Naturalists Are More Discursive, yn Active or Experimentall:
Deconstructing the Trope that Early Modern French Natural Philosophers were
Cartesians Engaged in Speculative Philosophy Sophie Roux
10. Provando e
riprovando: The Experimental Practice of the Accademia del Cimento Giulia
Giannini and Elisabetta Rossi
11. A Challenge for Historiographical
Categories: Cartesian Empiricism as a Form of Continental Empiricism Mihnea
Dobre
12. Proof by experiment in early modern England and France Peter R.
Anstey
13. Leibniz and the Invention of Empiricism Arnaud Pelletier.
Rodolfo Garau is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany
Arnaud Pelletier is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
