Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism
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Experimental philosophy and the origins of empiricism
(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.])
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-352) and index
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Description
The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite being associated with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, David Hume and Christian Wolff. Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book provides new terms of reference for understanding early modern philosophy and science, and its eventual eclipse in the shadow of post-Kantian notions of empiricism and rationalism. Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism is an integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy which challenges the rationalism and empiricism historiography that has dominated Anglophone history of philosophy for more than a century.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Note on Citations
- Introduction
- 1. The Rise of Experimental Philosophy
- 2. The Heyday of Experimental Philosophy
- 3. From Experimental Philosophy to Empiricism
- Conclusion
- List of Manuscripts
- Bibliography
- Index.
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