Pierre Gassendi's philosophy and science : atomism for empiricists

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Pierre Gassendi's philosophy and science : atomism for empiricists

by Saul Fisher

（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 131）

Brill, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-409) and index

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内容説明

This look at Gassendi's philosophy and science illuminates his contributions to early modern thought and to the broader history of philosophy of science. Two keys to his thought are his novel picture of acquiring and judging empirical belief, and his liberal account of criteria for counting empirical beliefs as parts of warranted physical theories. By viewing his philosophical and scientific pursuits as part of one and the same project, Gassendi's arguments on behalf of atomism can be fruitfully explained as licensed by his empiricism.

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Preface Notice to the Reader Foreword: A New, Integrated Picture of Gassendi Introduction: Basses-Alpes Priest, Provencal Scientist, and Parisian Philosopher PART I. A CONSTRUCTIVE SKEPTICIST THEORY OF EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE 1. The Skeptical Challenge, an Empiricist Response, and a Physicalist Theory of Perceptual Belief 2. The Theory of Signs: Cautious License for Truth-Like Empirical Belief 3. Empiricist Epistemic Warrant, and Probabilist and Anti-Essentialist Consequences PART II. SCIENTIFIC METHOD: THE REGRESSUS DEMONSTRATIVUS AND HYPOTHETICAL REASONING 4. Methodological Pursuits: The Regressus Recast, Induction, and Probability 5. The Institutio Method in Practice: Gassendi's Report of the Pascalian Experiment 6. A Method of Hypotheses and Hypothetical Reasoning PART III. THE ATOMIST HYPOTHESIS 7. Smallest Particles: From Ancient Atomist and Minima Theories to Minima Naturae and Physical Corpuscularianism 8. The Mechanical Philosophy 9. Ultimate Particles and Essential Features 10. Atomic Motion, Causal Role, and Internal Impetus 11. Explanatory Uses of the Atomist Hypothesis 12. Atomism, the Mechanical Philosophy, and Empirical Viability PART IV. ATOMISM AS HYPOTHESIS AND AS EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE 13. Atomism and Scientific Method 14. Is There a Circle in Gassendi's Reasoning? Bibliography General Index

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