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What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Four Methods of Empirical Inquiry in the Aftermath of Newton’s Challenge
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    Chapter 3 Fictitious Empiricism, Material Experiments. Conditions for Thinking the Enlightenment “Issue of Empiricism”
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    Chapter 4 Experimentum crucis: Newton’s Empiricism at the Crossroads
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    Chapter 5 The Experiments of Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande: A Validation of Leibnizian Dynamics Against Newton?
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    Chapter 6 Empiricism as a Rhetoric of Legitimation: Maupertuis and the Shape of the Earth
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    Chapter 7 Philosophical and Scientific Empiricism and Rationalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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    Chapter 8 Buffon’s Natural History: The Catalogue of Facts and the Temptation of System
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    Chapter 9 What Does It Mean to Be an Empiricist in Medicine? Baglivi’s De praxi medica (1696)
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    Chapter 10 Empiricism and Certainty in Science: The Franco-Berlin School of Empiricism
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    Chapter 11 Was Early Eighteenth-Century Chemistry an Empirical Science?
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    Chapter 12 Conducting Observations and Tests: Lambert’s Theory of Empirical Science
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    Chapter 13 From Locke to Materialism: Empiricism, the Brain and the Stirrings of Ontology
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Chapter title
Buffon’s Natural History: The Catalogue of Facts and the Temptation of System
Chapter number 8
Book title
What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?
Published by
Springer, Cham, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-69860-1_8
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-969858-8, 978-3-31-969860-1
Authors

Thierry Hoquet, Hoquet, Thierry

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