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OverviewThe contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature in the 17th century and the role played by philosophical anthropology in the 18th century. Divided into three parts, 1. The Dispute between Metaphysics and Empiricism , 2. Arts of Empirical Research, and 3. Relevance of Case Studies, the volume questions the position of medicine within so-called natural philosophy , which encompasses physiology and anatomy, as well as physics, astronomy and chemistry. One of its aims is to understand the tension between the goals pursued by the natural philosopher and the objectives set by the physician . Within natural philosophy, the primary goal is to know nature, the body and the living, and this knowledge implies an effort to understand the causes of natural phenomena. For the physician, on the other hand, the primary goal is to cure the patients' bodies that are presented to him. Contributors include: Claire Crignon, Claire Etchegaray, Guido Giglioni, Domenico Berto Meli, Anne-Lise Rey, Yvonne Wubben, and Carsten Zelle. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire Crignon , Carsten Zelle , Nunzio AlloccaPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9789004268128ISBN 10: 900426812 Pages: 167 Publication Date: 20 February 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Claire Crignon, Carsten Zelle, Nunzio Allocca I. THE DISPUTE BETWEEN METAPHYSICS AND EMPIRICISM The 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 The 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 IndicesReviewsAuthor InformationClaire Crignon, Dr. phil (2002, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon) is teaching Modern English philosophy at Paris Sorbonne University and working in the field of history of philosophy and medicine and contemporary philosophy of medicine. Publications: with Marie Gaille : A qui appartient le corps humain? Belles Lettres 2004; Melancolie et enthousiasme Burton et Shaftesbury, 2006; Je ne veux pas vieillir! Gallimard jeunesse, 2010. Carsten Zelle, Dr. phil. (1985), Habilitation (1994), Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, is professor for German Studies, esp. literary theory and rhetorics. He has published monographs on agreeable horror (1987) and the dual esthetics of modernity (1995), articles about German literary history in the 18th, 19th and 20th century and edited resp. co-edited several books e.g. case history (2012) and the representation of illness (2013). He is managing editor of the journal Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Nunzio Allocca is teaching History of Scientific Thought at Sapienza - Universita di Roma. His research interests have focused on the history and philosophy of biology and medicine in the modern age. Last main publications: Cartesio e il corpo della mente, Roma 2012; Lo spazio, l'occhio e la mente. Cartesio e la visibilita del mondo, Roma 2012. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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