Conflicting values of inquiry : ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe / edited by Tamas Demeter, Kathryn Murphy, and Claus Zittel.

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Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Reason and Common Culture in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme; Devices and Epistemic Values; Chapter 2 Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism; Chapter 3 Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera obscura; The Epistemology of Testimony.

Chapter 4 Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of TruthChapter 5 Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles; Religion and Inquiry; Chapter 6 Kepler's Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World; Chapter 7 Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry; Chapter 8 The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Late Eighteenth-Century Hungary; Values in Controversy.

Chapter 9 Newton's Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours, Categories, and DescriptionsChapter 10 The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry; The Methods and Epistemic Virtues of a 'Science of Man'; Chapter 11 Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed; Chapter 12 The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions; Ethics in Epistemology; Chapter 13 Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge; Chapter 14 Spinoza's Ethics: "A Dominion Within a Dominion."

Conflicting Values of Inquiry explores how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.

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