The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

David Marshall Miller (Edited by), Dana Jalobeanu (Edited by)

9781108420303, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 January 2022

560 pages
23.5 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.96 kg

The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundations of modernity. This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The chapters explore reciprocal influences between philosophy and physics, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines, and show how thinkers responded to an immense range of intellectual, material, and institutional influences. The volume offers a unique perspicuity, viewing the entire landscape of early modern philosophy and science, and also marks an epoch in contemporary scholarship, surveying recent contributions and suggesting future investigations for the next generation of scholars and students.

Introduction: the disciplinary revolutions of early modern philosophy and science David Marshall Miller and Dana Jalobeanu
Part I. The Disciplines: 1. The uses of ancient philosophy Dmitri Levitin
2. Novatores Daniel Garber
3. Renaissance aristotelianism(s) Helen Hattab
4. What to do with the mechanical philosophy? Sophie Roux
5. The later sects: cartesians, gassendists, leibnizians, and newtonians Delphine Bellis
6. Confessionalization and natural philosophy Andreas Blank
7. The rise of a public science? Women and natural philosophy in the early modern period Karen Detlefsen
Part II. Disciplinary Activities: 8. The art of thinking Sorana Corneanu and Koen Vermeir
9. Astrology, natural magic, and the scientific revolution Stephen Clucas
10. Practitioners' knowledge Joel A. Klein
11. Medicine and the science of the living body Peter Distelzweig and Evan Ragland
12. Experimental natural history Peter R. Anstey and Dana Jalobeanu
13. Celestial physics Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier
14. Applying mathematics to nature Maarten Van Dyck
15. Mathematical innovation and tradition: the cartesian common and the leibnizian new analyses Niccolò Guicciardini
16. Mechanics in newton's wake Brian Hepburn and Zvi Biener
Part III. Problems and Controversies: 17. Galileo's sidereus nuncius and its reception David Marshall Miller
18. Instruments and the senses Philippe Hamou
19. Science of mind Martine Pécharman
20. Circulation and the new physiology Gideon Manning
21. From metaphysical principles to dynamical laws Marius Stan
22. The debate about body and extension Geoffrey Gorham and Edward Slowik
23. Space and its relationship to god Andrew Janiak and Emily Thomas
24. The vis viva controversy Anne-Lise Rey.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX], Philosophy of science [PDA], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [HPCB]