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The Body As Object And Instrument Of Knowledge
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Author : Charles T. Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-04-07
The Body As Object And Instrument Of Knowledge written by Charles T. Wolfe and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-07 with Science categories.
It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. This volume focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body – as both the object of research and the subject of experience. Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, manyof the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. Indeed, the primary research interests of the early Royal Society were concentrated on the body, human and animal, and its functions much more than on mechanics. Similarly, the Académie des Sciences directly contradicted its self-imposed mandate to investigate Nature in mechanistic fashion, devoting a significant portion of its Mémoires to questions concerning life, reproduction and monsters, consulting empirical botanists, apothecaries and chemists, and keeping closer to experience than to the Cartesian standards of well-founded knowledge. These highlighted empirical studies of the body, were central in a workshop in the beginning of 2009 organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney. The papers that were presented bysome of the leading figures in this area are presented in this volume.
Instruments Of Knowledge
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Author : Jean-François Gauvin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-06-19
Instruments Of Knowledge written by Jean-François Gauvin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-19 with Science categories.
In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.
The Body As Object And Instrument Of Knowledge
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Author : Charles T. Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-04-27
The Body As Object And Instrument Of Knowledge written by Charles T. Wolfe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Science categories.
It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. This volume focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body – as both the object of research and the subject of experience. Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, many of the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. Indeed, the primary research interests of the early Royal Society were concentrated on the body, human and animal, and its functions much more than on mechanics. Similarly, the Académie des Sciences directly contradicted its self-imposed mandate to investigate Nature in mechanistic fashion, devoting a significant portion of its Mémoires to questions concerning life, reproduction and monsters, consulting empirical botanists, apothecaries and chemists, and keeping closer to experience than to the Cartesian standards of well-founded knowledge. These highlighted empirical studies of the body, were central in a workshop in the beginning of 2009 organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney. The papers that were presented by some of the leading figures in this area are presented in this volume.
The Body As Object And Instrument Of Knowledge
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Author : Charles T. Wolfe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-09-08
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Making Natural Knowledge
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Author : Jan Golinski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-13
Making Natural Knowledge written by Jan Golinski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-13 with Philosophy categories.
This book reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture. This new approach has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress.
Library Of Useful Knowledge
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
Library Of Useful Knowledge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with Physics categories.
Library Of Universal Knowledge
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language : en
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Release Date : 1880
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The Wisdom Of Sartre
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Author : Philosophical Library
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2010-09-07
The Wisdom Of Sartre written by Philosophical Library and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
DIV DIVAn invaluable introduction to the leading French intellectual of the twentieth centuryDIV /div/divDIVThe Wisdom of Sartre offers key excerpts from the eloquent French writer, playwright, and philosopher’s masterpiece, Being and Nothingness. From this collection, readers will discover the strongest themes in his early philosophical work: an ontological account of what it means to be human, and the role of perception, knowledge, and consciousness in the practical demands of life. Sartre’s view that man’s freedom is a unique source of both misery and pleasure and that the question of which will prevail depends on man’s awareness and commitment to his freedom is both thought provoking and timely./div /div
The Penny Cyclop Dia Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge
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language : en
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Release Date : 1837
The Penny Cyclop Dia Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
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Transformation And Convergence In The Frame Of Knowledge
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Author : Thomas F. Torrance
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 1998-04-29
Transformation And Convergence In The Frame Of Knowledge written by Thomas F. Torrance and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-29 with Religion categories.
The essays which make up this volume arise out of the author's ongoing engagement with the tension between Christian theology and the general frame of thought that has dominated European culture for several hundred years. The early Christian Church set about not only to communicate the Gospel to the Greco-Roman world but also to transform the prevailing mode of thought and culture so that the Gospel could take deep root and develop within it. Therefore, in every age, says Thomas F. Torrance, "the Christian faith must be brought to bear transformingly upon the whole frame of human culture, science, and philosophy."