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Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science - From Regius to 's Gravesande (Hardcover)
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Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science - From Regius to 's Gravesande (Hardcover)
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How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during
the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by
considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as
well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into account the
ways in which the disciplines of logic and metaphysics became
functional to the justification and reflection on the conceptual
premises and the methods of natural philosophy, changing their
traditional roles as art of reasoning and as science of being. This
transformation took place as a result of two factors. First, logic
and metaphysics (which included rational theology) were used to
grant the status of indubitable knowledge of natural philosophy.
Second, the debates internal to Cartesianism, as well as the
emergence of alternative philosophical world-views (such as those
of Hobbes, Spinoza, the experimental science and Newtonianism)
progressively deprived such disciplines of their foundational
function, and they started to become forms of reflection over given
scientific practices, either Cartesian, experimental, or Newtonian.
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