Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781032093536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str.

Alberto Vanzo; Peter R. Anstey

Opis

This volume assembles scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion.

Spis treści

Introduction

Alberto Vanzo and Peter R. Anstey

1. Francis Bacon on Sophists, Poets and other Forms of Self-Deceit (Or, What can the Experimental Philosopher Learn from a Theoretically Informed History of Philosophy?)

Dana Jalobeanu

2. Robert Boyle and the Intelligibility of the Corpuscular Philosophy

Peter R. Anstey

3. Cavendish and Boyle on Colour and Experimental Philosophy

Keith Allen

4. Appeals to Experience in Hobbes’ Science of Politics

Tom Sorell

5. Locke and the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind

Philippe Hamou

6. Newton’s Scaffolding: The Instrumental Roles of his Optical Hypotheses

Kirsten Walsh

7. What (Else) was Behind the Newtonian Rejection of ‘Hypotheses’?

Catherine Wilson

8. From Experimental Natural Philosophy to Natural Religion: Action and Contemplation in the Early Royal Society

Elliot Rossiter

9. Experimental Philosophy and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Alberto Vanzo

10. Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: A Non-Anglocentric Overview

Dmitri Levitin

O autorze

Alberto Vanzo is an independent scholar based in the United Kingdom. He has been a Marie Curie fellow at the universities of Birmingham and Warwick. His research in early modern philosophy ranges from Kant to experimental philosophy.

Peter Anstey FAHA is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He specializes in early modern philosophy with a focus on John Locke, Robert Boyle and the French Philosophes. He is the author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2013).