What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist? Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bodenmann, Siegfried (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rey, Anne-Lise (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 331
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Arts.; Philosophy, general.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

This book begins with an observation: At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. Hence the central question of this volume: What does it mean to conduct empirical science in early modern Europe? How can we catch the elusive figure of the...