1st Edition
Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science Boyle, Locke and Newton
By Michael Ben-Chaim
Copyright 2004
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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How did empirical research become the cornerstone of modern science? Scholars have traditionally associated empirical research with the search for knowledge, but have failed to provide adequate solutions to this basic historical problem. This book offers a different approach that focuses on human understanding - rather than knowledge - and its cultural expression in the creation and social... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the historical sociology of scientific explanations; The break with the philosophical discourse on nature: the discovery of electrical conductivity; Explanation and experimentation transformed: Newton's studies on spectral colors; The public transaction of Newton's optical research; Remodeling human understanding: Locke's laboratory of the mind; Locke's doctrine of the faithful mind; Experimental philosophy: the Gospel according to Boyle; Science as an institution of human understanding: conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Michael Ben-Chaim is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, USA.
