1st Edition
Continental Empiricism Rethinking Experience and Experiments in Early Modern Continental Philosophy and 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
Biography
Rodolfo Garau is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Department of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Technische Universität Nürnberg (UTN).
Arnaud Pelletier is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
