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Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment /

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emoti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riskin, Jessica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo