Mechanism, life and mind in modern natural philosophy / Charles T. Wolfe, Paolo Pecere, Antonio Clericuzio, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfe, Charles T., editor.

Pecere, Paolo, editor.

Clericuzio, Antonio, editor.

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 240.

International archives of the history of ideas ; 240

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mechanism (Philosophy)--History.

Mechanism (Philosophy).

Philosophy and the life sciences--History.

Philosophy and the life sciences.

Philosophy of mind--History.

Philosophy of mind.

Life (Biology).

Medicine--Philosophy--History.

Medicine.

Life.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It will be of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Life and Mechanism. Scaliger Bacon Harvey Glisson : A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life / Guido Giglioni

Jacob Schegk on Plants, Medicaments, and the Question of Emergence / Andreas Blank

Particles, universal spirit, and seeds : John Evelyn's theory of matter in Elysium Britannicum / Oana Matei

Stimulus and fibre theory in Giorgio Baglivi's medicine : a reassessment / Luca Tonetti

'Febris non est morbus, sed bellum contra morbum' : a study of seventeenth-century theories of fever / Antonio Clericuzio

'The operation of nature is different from mechanism' : Cudworth's account of plastic nature and its Plotinian background / Riccardo Chiaradonna

The chain of motions and the chain of thoughts : the diachronic mechanism of Spinoza's friends / Raphaële Andrault

Both natural and supernatural : Leibniz's integrated model of life / Antonio M. Nunziante

Experience, analogy and mechanism in Maupertuis's theory of generation / Marco Storni

"Nutrition, vital mechanisms and the ontology of life" / Cécilia Bognon-Küss

Expanded Mechanism and/or Structural Vitalism : Further Thoughts on the Animal Economy / Charles T. Wolfe

Part II. Mechanisms of the Mind. Powers of the Body and Eclipse of the Soul : From Descartes On / Emanuela Scribano

Shaftesbury's Conception of Human Thought / Ursula Renz

Psychology and Mechanism : Christian Wolff on the Soul-Body Analogy / Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero

Mental Machinery and Active Powers from Hartley to Ward / Federico Boccaccini

Mechanism, Organization, Mind : A Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth Century Psychology / Paolo Pecere

Organic Memory and the Perils of Perigenesis : The Helmholtz-Hering Debate / Lydia Patton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9783031070358

3031070356

OCLC:

1338654985