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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788035503321

Titolo

Conflicting values of inquiry : ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe / / edited by Tamás Demeter, Kathryn Murphy and Claus Zittel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28255-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Collana

Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, , 1568-1181 ; ; Volume 37

Disciplina

121.094

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of - Europe - History

Epistemics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction / Tamás Demeter -- 1 Reason and Common Culture in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme / Peter Dear -- 2 Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism / Matteo Valleriani -- 3 Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera obscura / Dániel Schmal -- 4 Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth / John Henry -- 5 Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles / Falk Wunderlich -- 6 Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World / Giora Hon -- 7 Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry / Tamás Demeter -- 8 The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Late Eighteenth-Century Hungary / János Tanács -- 9 Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours, Categories, and Descriptions / Gábor Áron Zemplén -- 10 The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry / Axel Gelfert -- 11 Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed / Thomas Sturm -- 12 The Science



of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions / Eric Schliesser -- 13 Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge / Sorana Corneanu -- 14 Spinoza’s Ethics: “A Dominion Within a Dominion” / Ruth Lorand -- 15 What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? / Catherine Wilson -- Index Nominum.

Sommario/riassunto

Historical research in previous decades has done a great deal to explore the social and political context of early modern natural and moral inquiries. Particularly since the publication of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985) several studies have attributed epistemological stances and debates to clashes of political and theological ideologies. The present volume suggests that with an awareness of this context, it is now worth turning back to questions of the epistemic content itself. The contributors to the present collection were invited to explore how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and eventually how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.