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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2023
      February 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009030236
      9781316516461
      9781009015585
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030236
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 380 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.549kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (145)
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (145)
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    The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite being associated with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, David Hume and Christian Wolff. Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book provides new terms of reference for understanding early modern philosophy and science, and its eventual eclipse in the shadow of post-Kantian notions of empiricism and rationalism. Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism is an integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy which challenges the rationalism and empiricism historiography that has dominated Anglophone history of philosophy for more than a century.

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    ‘The book is a must-read for both supporters and critics of ESD [experimental and speculative philosophy]. It is also essential reading for students of early modernity researching the intricate relationship between philosophy and the sciences.’

    Laura Georgescu Source: Metascience

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