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Medical empiricism and philosophy of human nature in the 17th and 18th century /

Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century demonstrate medical and philosophical empiricism is less about an ""essence"" and more a series of specifically modern ""acts"" or ""ge...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Crignon, Claire (Editor ), Zelle, Carsten, 1953- (Editor ), Allocca, Nunzio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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  • Machine generated contents note: I. DISPUTE BETWEEN METAPHYSICS AND EMPIRICISM
  • Debate about methodus medendi during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century in England: Modern Philosophical Readings of Classical Medical Empiricism in Bacon, Nedham, Willis and Boyle / Claire Crignon
  • Status of Leibniz' Medical Experiments: A Provisional Empiricism? / Anne-Lise Rey
  • Whytt and the Idea of Power: Physiological Evidence as a Challenge to the Eighteenth-Century Criticism of the Notion of Power / Claire Etchegaray
  • II. ARTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
  • Learning to Read Nature: Francis Bacon's Notion of Experiential Literacy (Experientia Literata) / Guido Giglioni
  • Of Snails and Horsetails: Anatomical Empiricism in the Early Modern Period / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
  • III. RELEVANCE OF CASE STUDIES
  • Experiment, Observation, Self-observation. Empiricism and the ̀Reasonable Physicians' of the Early Enlightenment / Carsten Zelle
  • Writing Cases and Casuistic Reasoning in Karl Philipp Moritz' Journal of Empirical Psychology / Yvonne Wubben.