The Origins of Early Modern Experimental Philosophy

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ID12903009
AutoresPeter R Anstey (0000-0001-8734-8090, University of Birmingham, autor correspondente), Alberto Vanzo (0000-0001-9687-0630, University of Otago)
Ano2012
Páginas1-20
Data de publicação2012-10-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIntellectual History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496977.2012.725552
OpenAlexW1968805629
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas2

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

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