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This volume is addressed to a wide range of scholars interested in
the use of digital tools and methods in the humanities. Readers can
find examples of new instruments and workflows which attest
successful applications of the digital humanities techniques to
some (traditional) problems in the scholarship of several
disciplines. In addition, the focus on Romance language
applications, while capturing specific language processing and
analysis challenges, turns this volume into a valuable reference
work.
Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the
acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the
seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image of
Cartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed
to meet challenges posed by the new science’s innovative methods.
Studies in this volume argue that far from being strangers to
experiment, many Cartesians used and integrated it into their
natural philosophies. Chapter 1 reviews the historiographies of
early modern philosophy, science, and Cartesianism and their recent
critiques. The first part of the volume explores various Cartesian
contexts of experiment: the impact of French condemnations of
Cartesian philosophy in the second half of the seventeenth century;
the relation between Cartesian natural philosophy and the Parisian
academies of the 1660s; the complex interplay between Cartesianism
and Newtonianism in the Dutch Republic; the Cartesian influence on
medical teaching at the University of Duisburg; and the challenges
chemistry posed to the Cartesian theory of matter. The second part
of the volume examines the work of particular Cartesians, such as
Henricus Regius, Robert Desgabets, Jacques Rohault, Burchard de
Volder, Antoine Le Grand, and Balthasar Bekker. Together these
studies counter scientific revolution narratives that take
rationalism and empiricism to be two mutually exclusive
epistemological and methodological paradigms. The volume is thus a
helpful instrument for anyone interested both in the histories of
early modern philosophy and science, as well as for scholars
interested in new evaluations of the historiographical tools that
framed our traditional narratives.
"Cartesian Empiricisms "considers the role Cartesians played in the
acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the
seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image of
Cartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed
to meet challenges posed by the new science's innovative methods.
Studies in this volume argue that far from being strangers to
experiment, many Cartesians used and integrated it into their
natural philosophies. Chapter 1 reviews the historiographies of
early modern philosophy, science, and Cartesianism and their recent
critiques. The first part of the volume explores various Cartesian
contexts of experiment: the impact of French condemnations of
Cartesian philosophy in the second half of the seventeenth century;
the relation between Cartesian natural philosophy and the Parisian
academies of the 1660s; the complex interplay between Cartesianism
and Newtonianism in the Dutch Republic; the Cartesian influence on
medical teaching at the University of Duisburg; and the challenges
chemistry posed to the Cartesian theory of matter. The second part
of the volume examines the work of particular Cartesians, such as
Henricus Regius, Robert Desgabets, Jacques Rohault, Burchard de
Volder, Antoine Le Grand, and Balthasar Bekker. Together these
studies counter scientific revolution narratives that take
rationalism and empiricism to be two mutually exclusive
epistemological and methodological paradigms. The volume is thus a
helpful instrument for anyone interested both in the histories of
early modern philosophy and science, as well as for scholars
interested in new evaluations of the historiographical tools that
framed our traditional narratives.
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