The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science /
It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accu...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Σειρά: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Embodied Empiricism
- The Body as Object
- Victories for Empiricism, Failures for Theory: Medicine and Science in the Seventeenth Century
- Practical Experience in Anatomy
- Early Modern Empiricism and the Discourse of the Senses
- Alkahest and Fire: Debating Matter, Chymistry, and Natural History at the Early Parisian Academy of Sciences
- John Locke and Helmontian Medicine
- The Body as Instrument
- Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye
- Mastering the Appetites of Matter. Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
- ‘A Corporall Philosophy’: Language and ‘Body-Making’ in the Work of John Bulwer (1606–1656)
- Memory and Empirical Information: Samuel Hartlib, John Beale and Robert Boyle
- Lamarck on Feelings: From Worms to Humans
- Embodied Minds
- Carelessness and Inattention: Mind-Wandering and the Physiology of Fantasy from Locke to Hume
- Instrumental or Immersed Experience: Pleasure, Pain and Object Perception in Locke
- Empiricism and Its Roots in the Ancient Medical Tradition
- Embodied Stimuli: Bonnet’s Statue of a Sensitive Agent
- Empiricist Heresies in Early Modern Medical Thought.
