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 combinestheir 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 Board EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

• Dana Jalobeanu University of Bucharest, Romania

• Charles T. Wolfe Ghent University, Belgium

  ASSOCIATE EDITORS

• Delphine Bellis University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Zvi Biener University of Cincinnati, OH, USA

• Angus Gowland University College London, UK

• Ruth Hagengruber University of Paderborn, Germany

• Hiro Hirai Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Martin Lenz University of Groningen, The Netherlands

• Gideon Manning CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA

• Silvia Manzo University of La Plata, Argentina

• Enrico Pasini University of Turin, Italy

• Cesare Pastorino TU Berlin, Germany

• Lucian Petrescu Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

• Justin E. H. Smith University de Paris Diderot, France

• Marius Stan Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

• Koen Vermeir CNRS-SPHERE + Université de Paris, France

• Kirsten Walsh University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  Reflects convergence of two main developments in early modern philosophy and history of science Treats a variety of topics in two parallel essays, a historical one and a 'presentist' one Features important debates over themes, concepts and figures

  Autorentext
  Dana Jalobeanu is lecturer in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, and member of the Center for the Logic, History 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). Her research interests include the emergence of science and experimental philosophy from Bacon to Newton, from the perspective of integrated HPS. She is principal investigator of a 4-year research grant in natural history of science (20112015) 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. Her recent articles include Learning from Experiment: Classification, Concept Formation and Modeling in Francis Bacon's Experimental Philosophy, Revue Roumaine de philosophie 57 (1) (2013) 7593; Idolatry, Natural History and Spiritual Medicine: Francis Bacon and the Neo-Stoic Protestantism of the Late Sixteenth Century, Perspectives on Science, 21: 2012: 207226; Francis Bacon's Natural History and the Senecan Natural Histories of Early Modern Europe, Early Science and Medicine, 17: 12, 2012, pp. 197229; Bacon's Brotherhood and Its classical Sources, in Francis Bacon and the Birth of Technology, edited by Claus Zittel, Gisela Engel, Romano Nanni, Intersections 11/(2008), Brill, Vol. I, 197230 Charles T. Wolfe is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurès, and co-director, ERRAPHIS. He works primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a particular interest in materialism and vitalism. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (2016), La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme (2019), and Lire le matérialisme (2020) and has edited or co-edited volumes on monsters, brains, empiricism, biology, mechanism and vitalism, and on figures including Locke, Priestley, and Canguilhem. He is co-editor of the book series History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (Springer). Papers available at: https://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/CharlesWolfe Associate Editors

Delphine Bellis is Assistant Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France. Her research interest is primarily in the history of early modern philosophy and science, in particular optics and theories of space and matter, with a focus on Descartes and Gassendi. She has published papers on Descartes, Regius, and Gassendi, and participates in the edition of Descartes' complete correspondence edited by Roger Ariew, Erik-Jan Bos, and Theo Verbeek, to be published by Oxford University Press. She co-edited Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (Springer, 2018 with Frederik Bakker and Carla Rita Palmerino) and is a member of the editorial board of Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et des Universités .

Zvi Biener is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on the nature of applied mathematical knowledge in the 17th and 18th centuries, and issues surrounding data analytics in the 21st century. He is the co-editor with Eric Schliesser of Newton and Empiricism (Oxford University Press, 2014) and the author of essays on early-modern mathematization such as "Hobbes on the Order of Sciences: A Partial Defese of the Mathematization Thesis" ( Southern Journal of Philosophy , 2016), " De Gravitatione Reconsidered: The Changing Significance of Experimental Evidence for Newton's Metaphysics of Space" ( Journal of the History of Philosophy , 2017), and "Newton's Regulae Philosophandi " ( The Oxford Handbook of Newton , E. Schliesser and C. Smeenk, eds. Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Angus Gowland is Reader in Intellectual History at University College London. He is the author of The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and the editor of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (Penguin Classics, forthcoming).

Ruth Hagengruber is Professor of Philosophy, specializing in philosophy of Economics and Information Science. She is Head of Philosophy at the University Paderborn and Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists https://historyofwomenphilosophers.or…