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oapen-20.500.12657-855982023-11-28T03:33:49Z Chapter System, Hypothesis, and Experiments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis DEL PRETE, Antonella Pierre-Sylvain Régis system hypothesis experimental natural philosophy speculative natural philosophy Claude Perrault bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s Cartesianism is quite singular in seventeenth-century French philosophy. Though, can we speak of a form of experimental science in Régis’s work? After exploring his notions of ‘system’ and ‘hypothesis’, I will define his position in relation to Claude Perrault, Jacques Rohault, and the Royal Society. I argue, first, that the contrasts which traverse French science are not so much about the use of experiments but about whether or not observational data can be traced back to hypotheses and to a coherent system. Secondly, that we can detect a significant similarity between Boyle’s positions and the views expressed by Perrault and also by Régis. Lastly, that French science, even in its Cartesian version, is much more probabilistic than English experimental philosophy. 2023-11-27T17:12:32Z 2023-11-27T17:12:32Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_8 9791221501698 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85598 eng Knowledge and its Histories application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 38463.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0169-8.9 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.09 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.09 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221501698 1 14 Florence open access
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Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s Cartesianism is quite singular in seventeenth-century French philosophy. Though, can we speak of a form of experimental science in Régis’s work? After exploring his notions of ‘system’ and ‘hypothesis’, I will define his position in relation to Claude Perrault, Jacques Rohault, and the Royal Society. I argue, first, that the contrasts which traverse French science are not so much about the use of experiments but about whether or not observational data can be traced back to hypotheses and to a coherent system. Secondly, that we can detect a significant similarity between Boyle’s positions and the views expressed by Perrault and also by Régis. Lastly, that French science, even in its Cartesian version, is much more probabilistic than English experimental philosophy.
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