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

"Originally published as volume XVIII, nos. 4-5 (2013) of Brill's Journal early science and medicine"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Machine generated contents note: I. DISPUTE BETWEEN METAPHYSICS AND EMPIRICISM -- 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 -- 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 -- II. ARTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH -- Learning to Read Nature: Francis Bacon's Notion of Experiential Literacy (Experientia Literata) / Guido Giglioni -- Of Snails and Horsetails: Anatomical Empiricism in the Early Modern Period / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- III. RELEVANCE OF CASE STUDIES -- Experiment, Observation, Self-observation. Empiricism and the ̀Reasonable Physicians' of the Early Enlightenment / Carsten Zelle -- Writing Cases and Casuistic Reasoning in Karl Philipp Moritz' Journal of Empirical Psychology / Yvonne Wubben.

Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century demonstrate medical and philosophical empiricism is less about an ""essence"" and more a series of specifically modern ""acts"" or ""gestures.""

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