Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism (Ideas in Context, Series Number 145)

"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"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half-title page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Citations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I The Rise of Experimental Philosophy Chapter 1 The Origins of the Experimental/Speculative Distinction Chapter 2 Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 3 Experimental Natural History Part II The Heyday of Experimental Philosophy Chapter 4 Mathematical Experimental Philosophy Chapter 5 Experimental Philosophy in France Chapter 6 Experimental Natural Philosophy and Moral Philosophy Part III From Experimental Philosophy to Empiricism Chapter 7 Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany Chapter 8 Kant and the Genesis of Empiricism Chapter 9 Reinhold, Tennemann, and the Rise of Empiricism Conclusion Manuscripts Cited Newspapers, Broadsheets, and Almanacs References Index