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Anstey, Peter R. and Vanzo, Alberto (2012) The origins of early modern experimental philosophy. Intellectual History Review, Volume 22 (Number 4). pp. 499-518. doi:10.1080/17496977.2012.725552 ISSN 1749-6977.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2012.725552
Abstract
This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair of methods in natural philosophy, the speculative versus the experimental, and that this pairing derives from an overarching distinction between speculative and operative philosophy that can be ultimately traced back to Aristotle. The paper examines the traditional classification of natural philosophy as a speculative discipline from the Stagirite to the seventeenth century; medieval and early modern attempts to articulate a scientia experimentalis; and the tensions in the classification of natural magic and mechanics that led to the introduction of an operative part of natural philosophy in the writings of Francis Bacon and John Johnston. The paper concludes with a summary of the salient discontinuities between the experimental/speculative distinction of the mid-seventeenth century and its predecessors and a statement of the developments that led to the ascendance of experimental philosophy from the 1660s.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Philosophy, Modern -- History | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Intellectual History Review | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 1749-6977 | ||||
| Official Date: | 4 October 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 22 | ||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 499-518 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17496977.2012.725552 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 December 2015 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 December 2015 |
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