Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

Product Description This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ‘insiders and outsiders’, minor figures in philosophy, and underground movements, among many other topics. In addition, and in line with important recent transformations in the fields of history of science and early modern philosophy, the volume recognizes the specificity and significance of early modern science and discusses important developments including issues of historiography (such as historical epistemology), the interplay between the material culture and modes of knowledge, expert knowledge and craft knowledge.   This book stands at the crossroads of different disciplines and combines their approaches – particularly the history of science, the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of science, and intellectual and cultural history. It brings together over 100 philosophers, historians of science, historians of mathematics, and medicine offering a comprehensive view of early modern philosophy and the sciences. It combines and discusses recent results from two very active fields: early modern philosophy and the history of (early modern) science. Editorial BoardEDITORS-IN-CHIEFDana Jalobeanu University of Bucharest, RomaniaCharles T. Wolfe Ghent University, BelgiumASSOCIATE EDITORSDelphine Bellis University Nijmegen, The NetherlandsZvi Biener University of Cincinnati, OH, USAAngus Gowland University College London, UKRuth Hagengruber University of Paderborn, GermanyHiro Hirai Radboud University Nijmegen, The NetherlandsMartin Lenz University of Groningen, The NetherlandsGideon Manning CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USASilvia Manzo University of La Plata, ArgentinaEnrico Pasini University of Turin, ItalyCesare Pastorino TU Berlin, GermanyLucian Petrescu Université Libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumJustin E. H. Smith University de Paris Diderot, FranceMarius Stan Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USAKoen Vermeir CNRS-SPHERE + Université de Paris, FranceKirsten Walsh University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada About the Author Dana Jalobeanu is lecturer in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, member of the research centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science CELFIS, and of the research center Foundations of Early Modern Thought (FEM), University of Bucharest. She is the executive editor of the journal Societate si politica and co-editor of the Journal of Early Modern Studies. She is general secretary of the International Society for Intellectual History and member of the steering committee of HOPOS. She is one of the initiators and co-organizers, since 2001, of the Princeton-Bucharest seminar in early modern philosophy (12 editions since 2001). Research interests: the emergence of science, experimental philosophy from Bacon to Newton. Perspective: integrated HPS. She is Principal Investigator of a 4 year research grant From natural history of science (2011-2015) and the Romanian coordinator of a European Research Council grant (The medicine of the mind and natural philosophy in early modern England) held jointly by The Warburg Institute and New Europe College (Bucharest).She has co-edited (with Peter Anstey), Vanishing matter and the laws of nature: Descartes and beyond, Routledge: London, 2011. Recent articles: Learning from experiment: classification, concept formation and modeling in Francis Bacon’s experimental philosophy, Revue Roumaine de philosophie 57 (1) (2013) 75-93, Idolatry, Natural History and Spiritual Medicine: Francis Bacon and the Neo-Stoic Protestantism of the Late Sixteenth Century, Perspectives on Science, 21: 2012: 207-226, Francis Bacon’s natural history and the Sen