Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science

A Reappraisal of the Function of Philosophy from Regius to ‘s Gravesande 1640-1750

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ID6570043
AuthorsAndrea Strazzoni (0000-0001-5552-2592, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages254
Publication date2018-11-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110569698
OpenAlexW2903132546
Open LibraryOL27763187M, OL37284465M
ISBN9783110567823, 9783110569698
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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

Cartesianism · Epistemology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical Philosophy and Science · Historical Studies in Science · Philosophy · 1596-1650 · Descartes, René · History · Logic · Metaphysics · rene Descartes (1596-1650) · Science · Science, philosophy

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