Philosophies of technology : Francis Bacon and his contemporaries /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Volume -- One -- Notes on the Editors of this Volume -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction (Claus Zittel) -- Part I -- Beginnings -- Chapter 1 -- "Industrious Observations, Grounded Conclusions, and Profi table Inventions and Discoveries; the Best State of That Province": Technology and Culture during Francis Bacon's Stay in France -- Chapter 2 -- Francis Bacon's Scientia Operativa, The Tradition of the Workshops, and The Secrets of Nature -- Chapter 3 -- Technical Knowledge and the Advancement of Learning: Some Questions about 'Perfectibility' and 'Invention' -- Chapter 4 -- The Weatherglass and its Observers in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Part II -- Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments and Utopias -- Chapter 5 -- The Role of Mechanics in Francis Bacon's Great Instauration -- Chapter 6 -- Bacon's Brotherhood and its Classical Sources: Producing and Communicating Knowledge in the Project of the Great Instauration -- Chapter 7 -- The Whale under the Microscope: Technology and Objectivity in Two Renaissance Utopias -- Volume -- 2 -- Part III -- Metaphoric Models -- Chapter 8 -- The Role of Metaphors in William Harvey's Thought -- Chapter 9 -- Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological Foundation of Technological Metaphor in the Natural Philosophy of Ren233; Descartes -- Chapter 10 -- Descartes as Bricoleur -- Part IV -- Bacon's Legacy: The Impact for the Arts and Sciences -- Chapter 11 -- The Poet and the Philosopher: Francis Bacon and Georg Philipp Harsdrffer -- Chapter 12 -- Formal Causes and Mechanical Causes: The Analogy of the Musical Instrument in Late Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy -- Chapter 13 -- The Modern Wonder and its Enemies: Courtly Innovations in the Spanish Renaissance -- Chapter 14 -- The Gap between Theory and Practice: Hydrodynamical and Hydraulical Utopias in the 18th Century -- Chapter 15 -- Sentimental Hydraulics: Utopia and Technology in 18th-Century France -- Chapter 16 -- History Redoubled: The Synthesis of Facts in Linnaean Natural History -- Chapter 17 -- Rescue Attempts: Scientific Images and the Mysteries of Power in the Era of Louis XIV -- Index Nominum.…”
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Philosophy and the state in France : the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / by Keohane, Nannerl O., 1940-

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Philosophy and the State in France. by Keohane, Nannerl O.

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The natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : reason and fancy during the scientific revolution / by Sarasohn, Lisa T., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Gender, nature, and natural philosophy -- A wonderful natural philosopher -- Cavendish's early atomism -- The life of matter -- The imaginative universe of natures pictures -- The politics of matter -- The challenge of immaterial matter -- Cavendish against the experimenters -- Material regenerations -- Does Cavendish matter?…”
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Morality in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes : cases in the law of nature / by Lloyd, S. A., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Moral judgements -- Moral judges : human nature and motivation -- The law of nature : definition and function -- A critical examination of derivations of the laws of nature -- The reciprocity interpretation of Hobbes's moral philosophy -- Self-effacing natural law and the duty to submit to government -- Fools, hyprocrites, zealots, and dupes : civil character and social stability -- The unity of practical wisdom.…”
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Isaac Newton's natural philosophy /

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The problem of evil in early modern philosophy /

“…Toronto studies in philosophy.…”
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Politicized physics in seventeenth century philosophy : essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza / by Roecklein, Robert J., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: physics and politics -- Francis Bacon's uncharitable charity : the birth of a new rationality -- Descartes and the science of authority -- Hobbes's natural science -- Hobbes's "right of nature" and the politics of agony -- On Spinoza's "substance" or "God" -- Conclusion: early modern philosophy, just the facts.…”
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Experimental philosophy and the birth of empirical science : Boyle, Locke, and Newton / by Ben-Chaim, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Locke's doctrine of the faithful mind -- 7. Experimental philosophy : the gospel according to Boyle -- 8. Science as an institution of human understanding : conclusions.…”
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The importance of Spinoza for the modern philosophy of science : can the revival of Spinoza's naturalism refute cultural relativism? / by Brenner-Golomb, Nancy

Table of Contents: “….; CHAPTER XIII: THE ASSUMED CENTRAL ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.; CHAPTER XIV: A MODERN VIEW IN THE SPIRIT OF SPINOZA.; CONCLUDING REMARKS.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index…”
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Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy. by Formigari, Lia

Table of Contents: “…LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE IN 17TH-CENTURYBRITISH PHILOSOPHY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 0. …”
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Wagering on an ironic God : Pascal on faith and philosophy / by Hibbs, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…Irony, philosophy, and the Christian faith -- Socratic immanence: Montaigne's recovery of philosophy as a way of life -- The virtue of science and the science of virtue: Descartes' overcoming of Socrates -- The quest for wisdom: Pascal and philosophy -- Wagering on an ironic God.…”
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Philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice in the seventeenth century / by Mancosu, Paolo

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- 1. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 1.1 The Quaestio de Certitudine Mathematicarum -- 1.2 The Quaestio in the Seventeenth Century -- 1.3 The Quaestio and Mathematical Practice -- 2. …”
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The Invisible World Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope / by Wilson, Catherine

“…Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophy…”
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Insight and inference : Descartes's founding principle and modern philosophy / by Miles, Murray Lewis

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Cartesian metaphysics : the late scholastic origins of modern philosophy / by Secada, Jorge

Table of Contents: “…Scepticism, scholasticism and the origins of Descartes's philosophy -- 3. Cartesian real essences -- Part II. …”
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Lines of thought : discourse, architectonics, and the origin of modern philosophy / by Brodsky, Claudia, 1955-

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Descartes embodied : reading Cartesian philosophy through Cartesian science / by Garber, Daniel, 1949-

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Heretics! : the wondrous (and dangerous) beginnings of modern philosophy / by Nadler, Steven M., 1958-

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Of philosophers and kings : political philosophy in Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear / by Craig, Leon Harold

Table of Contents: “…The Political Philosopher as Dramatic Poet: Preliminary Remarks on the Study of Shakespeare -- Living in a Hard Time: Politics and Philosophy in Macbeth -- The Discovery of Nature: Politics and Philosophy in King Lear -- "Sweet Philosophy": Further Illustrations of Shakespeare's Portrayal of Philosophy in Relation to Political Life.…”
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