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History of universities. Volume XXXIII/2
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This work on the history of universities presents new materials and case studies in order to deepen understanding of the role of the academic milieu in the early modern reshaping of natural philoso...
This work on the history of universities presents new materials and case studies in order to deepen understanding of the role of the academic milieu in the early modern reshaping of natural philosophy. The chapters included in this volume aim to pursue two main axes of research: the reconstruction and exploration of the dialectics between tradition and innovation in the reshaping of natural philosophy; the attempt to constitute and consolidate new traditions in natural philosophy. The introduction presents the general topic of the volume, the methodological approach developed by the contributors, and the contents of each contribution.
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- Creator
- Moredechai Feingold and Andrea Sangiacomo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
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- 1 online resource (248 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780191914799, 0191914797, 9780192647221, 0192647229, 9780192893833
- OCLC
- on1231541958
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cover -- History of Universities: VOLUME XXXIII/2 2020 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Academic Milieu -- 0. The playground -- 1. Exploring the dialectics between tradition and innovation -- 2. Exploring the establishment of new traditions -- 3. Looking at the background -- Fromondus versus Galileo on Comets -- Introduction -- The Setting for Thinking about Comets: Astronomical Novelties, 1610-1618 -- Fromondus and the Comet of 1618 -- Fromondus and Comets, 1627-1650
- Institutioni Scholasticae Minime Accommodata: De Neufville and Clauberg on not Teaching Bacon -- Introduction -- De Neufville on why natural philosophy needs Bacon -- Clauberg on why natural philosophy should not follow Bacon -- Conclusion -- Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg and the German Reception of Cartesianism -- Descartes in Germany -- Clauberg and Duisburg -- Cartesianisms (And Aristotelianisms) In Seventeenth-Century Germany -- Descartes, Aristotle, and a New School Philosophy -- Clauberg A Cartesio-Scholastic?
- Methods of Teaching or Discovery? Analysis and Synthesis from Zabarella to Spinoza -- ntroduction -- Zabarella on method -- Burgersdijk's adaptation of Zabarella -- Descartes and Hobbes -- Spinoza -- Caspar Langenhert's Parisian 'School of Egoists' and the Reception of Geulincx's Physics, from Occasionalism to Solipsism -- Introduction: Egoism, Occasionalism, and Langenhert's 'New Philosophy' -- Langenhert before the Move to Paris -- Langenhert's Leiden Disputio Philosophica Inauguralis. -- Langenhert's Annotations to the Compendium Physicae and Geulincx's Physics at Leiden
- Langenhert's Parisian Teachings and the Novus Philosophus -- The Cartesian Background and the External World. -- Langenhert's Case against the Representation of Bodies. -- Langenhert's Case against Bodily Occasions for Sensations. -- The Impossibility of Creaturely Causation and Representation in Langenhert's Metaphysics -- Conclusion -- 'Following No Party But The Truth': Petrus Van Musschenbroek's Rhetorical Defence Of '(Newtonian) Experimental Philosophy' -- Introduction -- The University in the Dutch Republic and the Controversies over Cartesianism
- A 'True and Stable Method of Philosophising -- Law and Order -- 'Utilitas Physicae Ingens Est' -- Summary and Conclusion -- Speculative Philosophy at the Berlin Academy -- Introduction -- What is Speculative Philosophy? -- The class of speculative philosophy -- Interpreting Speculative Philosophy -- The Academic Spirit -- Conclusion -- The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy: Occasional causality and Coarse-Grained Reality -- 1. Understanding change -- 2. An operational account of normalisation -- 3. The normalisation of occasional causality