Titlebook: What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?; Empiricisms in Eight Siegfried Bodenmann,Anne-Lise Rey Book 2018 Springer International Publishing

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, Newton’s Empiricism at the Crossroads methodological clue, which, properly understood, can help us to assess the kind of ‘empiricist’ commitment that may be ascribed to Newton. In order to dispel persistent misunderstandings, the first part of the chapter shows how our present understanding of crucial experiments has been shaped by nin

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The Experiments of Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande: A Validation of Leibnizian Dynamics Against Newton? methodology and epistemology in the 1720s, his empirical claim somehow backfired: in applying tenets of Newtonian methodology, he was ultimately led to validate the Leibnizian principle of the conservation of living forces, contrary to the Newtonians. This conclusion invited a great deal of anger,

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Buffon’s Natural History: The Catalogue of Facts and the Temptation of Systempicted as ., and lacking any empirical background. His . is depicted as an over-inflated rhetorical device (in Voltaire’s words, “.”), and a traditional comment on his . was that this natural history was “not so natural (.)”. Lastly, Daubenton’s contribution to comparative anatomy is often praised a

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What Does It Mean to Be an Empiricist in Medicine? Baglivi’s , (1696)in his therapeutic work entitled .? In order to answer this question, we examine the methodological implications of the “history of diseases” that Baglivi promotes by using Bacon’s recommendations in the .. Then, we compare this result with the place that historians generally gave to Baglivi in the

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Empiricism and Certainty in Science: The Franco-Berlin School of Empiricism reasons why Hume was strangely benighted in the mid-eighteenth century by the Franco-Berlin school. The paper argues that Maupertuis’ reading of the Humean conception of causality in his . relies upon his criticism of Hume’s thesis on causality. It also suggests that there is a significant link wit

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Conducting Observations and Tests: Lambert’s Theory of Empirical Sciencecience is obtained with the help of both . and . knowledge. Lambert’s originality lies on the application of the analytic and synthetic methods of reasoning, which are traditionally used in formal disciplines, to the realm of experience. Transforming common knowledge into scientific . knowledge is m

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From Locke to Materialism: Empiricism, the Brain and the Stirrings of Ontologyobbes and Locke to Diderot, but is also a medical phrase, used by Harvey, Mandeville and others). That is, canonical empiricists like Locke go out of their way to state that their project to investigate and articulate the ‘logic of ideas’ is .: “I shall not at present meddle with the Physical consid