Titlebook: Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science; Pietro Daniel Omodeo,Rodolfo Garau Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Ea

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and , Scholastic Reminiscences in Early Modern Mechanics,ic thinkers did not limit their discussion of contingency to the onto-theological dimension, that is, the foundation of reality upon God’s will. Rather, contingency also implied a certain mental model for physical causality, regarded as a not-necessary but determined concatenation of natural events.

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Manipulating Matter and Its Appetites: Francis Bacon on Causation and the Creation of Preternaturalthough he provides a significatively different explanation than the one of Scholastic-Aristotelianism; and on the other, how his focus on the notion of “pretergeneration” (that is, nature’s spontaneous generation of monsters and errors), functional to his philosophical agenda, aimed at mastering nat

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Bacon and the Virtuosi: Experimental Contingency and Mechanical Laws in the Early Royal Society,es conceived these phenomena to be necessary or contingent. While it recognizes that Cartesian natural philosophy has strong necessitarian implications, it challenges this idea in relation to the behavior of the most complex entities of the physical universe: God’s organic machines. The argument is

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,Necessity, Contingency, and Freedom in Descartes’ Physiology: Spontaneity in Nature,e interactions between animals – in Descartes’ conception: natural automata – and their environment, as well as between different parts inside their body. The most pressing issue for us is to understand to what extent these interactions were conceived by Descartes as necessary or contingent events,

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,Losing One’s Temper: Contingency in Early Modern Medicine,h what is true regardless of all circumstances; on the other hand, physicians struggle with the immediate and pressing needs of the individual patient. Yet, in Galenic medicine there were three ways of dealing with various forms of life: the notion of temperament, a fluid understanding of disease, a

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Vacuum Drying for Extending Food Shelf-Lifen’t have the resources to explain them or because the events are unpredictable in principle. In what follows, the focus is on contingency as a problem about how we describe those features of the world that fall outside our best theories, including our best high-level theories. On this understanding