The body as object and instrument of knowledge : embodied empiricism in early modern science /
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht, [Netherlands] ; New York :
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2010.
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| Series: | Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Embodied empiricism / Charles T. Wolfe and Ofer Gal
- The body as object. Victories for empiricism, failures for theory : medicine and science in the seventeenth century / Harold J. Cook ; Practical experience in anatomy / Cynthia Klestinec ; Early modern empiricism and the discourse of the senses / Alan Salter ; Alkahest and fire : debating matter, chymistry, and natural history at the early Parisian Academy of the Sciences / Victor D. Boantza ; John Locke and Helmontian Medicine / Peter R. Anstey
- Body as instrument. Empiricism without the senses : how the instrument replaced the eye / Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris ; Mastering the appetites of matter : Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum / Guido Giglioni ; A corporall philosophy : language and "body -making" in the work of John Bulwer (1606-1656) / Justin E.H. Smith ; Memory and empirical information : Samuel Hartlib, John Beale and Robert Boyle / Richard Yeo ; Lamarck on feelings : from worms to humans / Snait B. Gissis
- Embodied minds. Carelessness and inattention : mind-wandering and the physiology of fantasy from Locke to Hume / John Sutton ; Instrumental or immersed experience : pleasure, pain and object perception in Locke / Lisa Shapiro ; Empiricism and its roots in the ancient medical tradition / Anik Waldow ; Embodied stimuli : Bonnet's statue of a sensitive agent / Tobias Cheung ; Empiricist heresies in early modern medical thought / Charles T. Wolfe.