Feingold, Mordechai (2016) “Experimental Philosophy”: Invention and Rebirth of a Seventeenth-Century Concept. Early Science and Medicine, 21 (1). pp. 1-28. ISSN 1383-7427. doi:10.1163/15733823-00211P01. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160317-100410171
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Abstract
This essay offers a more dynamic, and historically grounded, context to explain how and why various individuals and groups in England adopted the term “experimental philosophy.” Before the foundation of the Royal Society, I contend, the term had been utilized promiscuously, its modern signification conspicuously absent. Building on this insight, I examine the seemingly deliberate decision by future members of the Royal Society to avoid using the term – and the subsequent shift in their attitude c. 1660. My aim is to demonstrate that while only in England did the fixed conceptual and polemical term “experimental philosophy” become popularized and its (supposed) practice institutionalized, English natural philosophers did not view themselves as engaged in a practice that was fundamentally different than that pursued by their counterparts on the Continent.
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Additional Information: | © 2016 Koninklijke Brill NV. | |||||||||
Subject Keywords: | Experimental Philosophy; Robert Boyle; Royal Society; Hartlib Circle; Francis Bacon; Isaac Newton | |||||||||
Issue or Number: | 1 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1163/15733823-00211P01 | |||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20160317-100410171 | |||||||||
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Official Citation: | “Experimental Philosophy”: Invention and Rebirth of a Seventeenth-Century Concept Feingold, Mordechai, Early Science and Medicine, 21, 1-28 (2016), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00211p01 | |||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | |||||||||
Deposited On: | 17 Mar 2016 19:58 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2021 23:45 |
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