Medical empiricism and philosophy of human nature in the 17th and 18th century / edited by Claire Crignon, Carsten Zelle, and Nunzio Allocca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crignon, Claire, editor of compilation.

Zelle, Carsten, 1953- editor of compilation.

Allocca, Nunzio, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Philosophical anthropology--History.

Philosophical anthropology.

Human body (Philosophy).

Medicine--History--17th century.

Medicine--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature in the 17th century and the role played by philosophical anthropology in the 18th century. Divided into three parts, “1. The Dispute between Metaphysics and Empiricism”, “2. Arts of Empirical Research,” and “3. Relevance of Case Studies,” the volume questions the position of medicine within so-called “natural philosophy”, which encompasses physiology and anatomy, as well as physics, astronomy and chemistry. One of its aims is to understand the tension between the goals pursued by the “natural philosopher” and the objectives set by the \'physician\'. Within natural philosophy, the primary goal is to know nature, the body and the living, and this knowledge implies an effort to understand the causes of natural phenomena. For the physician, on the other hand, the primary goal is to cure the patients’ bodies that are presented to him. Contributors include: Claire Crignon, Claire Etchegaray, Guido Giglioni, Domenico Berto Meli, Anne-Lise Rey, Yvonne Wübben, and Carsten Zelle.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Claire Crignon , Carsten Zelle and Nunzio Allocca

The Debate about methodus medendi during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century in England: Modern Philosophical Readings of Classical Medical Empiricism in Bacon, Nedham, Willis and Boyle / Claire Crignon

The Status of Leibniz’ Medical Experiments: A Provisional Empiricism? / Anne-Lise Rey

Whytt and the Idea of Power: Physiological Evidence as a Challenge to the Eighteenth-Century Criticism of the Notion of Power / Claire Etchegaray

Learning to Read Nature: Francis Bacon’s Notion of Experiential Liter- acy (Experientia Literata) / Guido Giglioni

Of Snails and Horsetails: Anatomical Empiricism in the Early Modern Period / Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Experiment, Observation, Self-observation. Empiricism and the ‘Rea-sonable Physicians’ of the Early Enlightenment / Carsten Zelle

Writing Cases and Casuistic Reasoning in Karl Philipp Moritz’ Journal ofEmpirical Psychology / Yvonne Wübben

Indices / Claire Crignon , Carsten Zelle and Nunzio Allocca.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26813-8

OCLC:

902815408

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004268135 DOI