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Continental Empiricism. Rethinking Experience and Experiments in Early Modern Continental Philosophy and Science
This volume explores the relevance, richness, and influence of empiricism in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century European philosophy. It features original essays from leading scholars of early modern empiricism. Early modern philosophy is often divided into the categories of Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. This volume contends that there is a rich tradition of empiricism in early modern continental Europe. Each chapter provides a case study from the 16th-and 17th-century history of philosophy. These studies range from epistemology to natural philosophy and from the history of scientific institutions to experimental philosophy. The chapters complement historical analyses with methodological and historiographical reflections on notions traditionally associated with empiricism. Continental Empiricism will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in the history of early modern philosophy and the history of science.
1 Introduction. On Continental Empiricism: A Reflection on Historiographical Labels
Rodolfo Garau and Arnaud Pelletier
2 Pietro Pomponazzi’s Epistemic and Experiential Empiricism
Marco Sgarbi
3 Girolamo Cardano and Giulio Cesare Vanini on the Epistemological Role of Experience
Giuliano Mori
4 Galileo’s Telescopic Observations: Crux and Crisis of Aristotelian “Empiricism”
Philippe Hamou
5 Isaac Beeckman’s Empirical Turn: A Speculative Mechanical Philosopher’s Dedication to Astronomical Observation
Klaas van Berkel
6 A Baconian Science of Sounds: Marin Mersenne’s Echometry
Dana Jalobeanu
7 In Defense of “Empiricism”: Practical Knowledge and Epistemology. A Case Study on Pierre Gassendi
Rodolfo Garau
8 Descartes, Steno, and the Anatomy of the Earth: An Epistemological Inquiry
Daniel Garber
9 “The French Naturalists Are More Discursive, yn Active or Experimentall”: Deconstructing the Trope That Early Modern French Natural Philosophers Were Cartesians Engaged in Speculative Philosophy
Sophie Roux
10 “Provando e riprovando”: The Experimental Practice of the Accademia del Cimento
Giulia Giannini and Elisabetta Rossi
11 A Challenge for Historiographical Categories: Cartesian Empiricism as a Form of Continental Empiricism
Mihnea Dobre
12 Proof by Experiment in Early Modern England and France
Peter R. Anstey
13 Leibniz and the Invention of Empiricism
Arnaud Pelletier
Détails techniques
Titre: Continental Empiricism. Rethinking Experience and Experiments in Early Modern Continental Philosophy and Science
Editeurs: Rodolfo Garau, Arnaud Pelletier
Edition: Routledge, New York
Collection: Routledge Series in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Date de parution : 08/10/2025
Nombre de Pages : 360
ISBN : 9781032743448
Numéro d'édition : 1
Lien: https://www.routledge.com/Continental-Empiricism-Rethinking-Experience-and-Experiments-in-Early-Modern-Continental-Philosophy-and-Science/Garau-Pelletier/p/book/9781032743448
