Conflicting values of inquiry : ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe /
Conflicting values of inquiry : ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe /
edited by Tamas Demeter, Kathryn Murphy, and Claus Zittel.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 410 pages) : illustrations.
- Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, v. 37 - 2015 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections 37. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2015-II, ISBN: 9789004287426. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction / 1 Reason and Common Culture in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme / 2 Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism / 3 Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera obscura / 4 Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth / 5 Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles / 6 Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World / 7 Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry / 8 The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Late Eighteenth-Century Hungary / 9 Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours, Categories, and Descriptions / 10 The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry / 11 Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed / 12 The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions / 13 Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge / 14 Spinoza’s Ethics: “A Dominion Within a Dominion” / 15 What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? / Index Nominum. Tamás Demeter -- Peter Dear -- Matteo Valleriani -- Dániel Schmal -- John Henry -- Falk Wunderlich -- Giora Hon -- Tamás Demeter -- János Tanács -- Gábor Áron Zemplén -- Axel Gelfert -- Thomas Sturm -- Eric Schliesser -- Sorana Corneanu -- Ruth Lorand -- Catherine Wilson --
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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.
9789004282551
10.1163/9789004282551 DOI
2014036559
Knowledge, Theory of--History.--Europe
Epistemics--History.
Epistemics.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Europe.
History.
BD161 / .C6475 2015
121.094
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction / 1 Reason and Common Culture in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme / 2 Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism / 3 Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera obscura / 4 Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth / 5 Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles / 6 Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World / 7 Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry / 8 The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Late Eighteenth-Century Hungary / 9 Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours, Categories, and Descriptions / 10 The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry / 11 Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed / 12 The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions / 13 Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge / 14 Spinoza’s Ethics: “A Dominion Within a Dominion” / 15 What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? / Index Nominum. Tamás Demeter -- Peter Dear -- Matteo Valleriani -- Dániel Schmal -- John Henry -- Falk Wunderlich -- Giora Hon -- Tamás Demeter -- János Tanács -- Gábor Áron Zemplén -- Axel Gelfert -- Thomas Sturm -- Eric Schliesser -- Sorana Corneanu -- Ruth Lorand -- Catherine Wilson --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004282551
10.1163/9789004282551 DOI
2014036559
Knowledge, Theory of--History.--Europe
Epistemics--History.
Epistemics.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Europe.
History.
BD161 / .C6475 2015
121.094