The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

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The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundations of modernity. This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The chapters explore reciprocal influences between philosophy and physics, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines, and show how thinkers responded to an immense range of intellectual, material, and institutional influences. The volume offers a unique perspicuity, viewing the entire landscape of early modern philosophy and science, and also marks an epoch in contemporary scholarship, surveying recent contributions and suggesting future investigations for the next generation of scholars and students.

David Marshall Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. He is author of Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and has published essays in books and journals including Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Perspectives on Science, and Archive for History of Exact Sciences. Dana Jalobeanu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest and Director of the Humanities Division of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. She is author of The Art of Experimental Natural History: Francis Bacon in Context (2015). She is co-editor of the Journal of Early Modern Studies and co-organizer of the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.