The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science

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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.

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Embodied Empiricism.  (pages 1--6)Charles T. Wolfe
Victories for Empiricism, Failures for Theory: Medicine and Science in the Seventeenth Century.  (pages 9--32)Harold J. Cook
Practical Experience in Anatomy.  (pages 33--57)Cynthia Klestinec
Early Modern Empiricism and the Discourse of the Senses.  (pages 59--74)Alan Salter
Alkahest and fire: Debating matter, chymistry, and natural history at the early Parisian academy of sciences.  (pages 75--92)Victor D. Boantza
John Locke and Helmontian Medicine.  (pages 93--117)Peter R. Anstey
Empiricism without the senses: How the instrument replaced the eye.  (pages 121--147)Ofer Gal & Raz Chen-Morris
Mastering the Appetites of Matter. Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum.  (pages 149--167)Guido Giglioni
Memory and Empirical Information: Samuel Hartlib, John Beale and Robert Boyle.  (pages 185--210)Richard Yeo
Lamarck on Feelings: From Worms to Humans.  (pages 211--239)Snait B. Cheung
Lamarck on feelings: From worms to humans.  (pages 211--239)Snait B. Gissis
Carelessness and Inattention: mind-wandering and the physiology of fantasy from Locke to Hume.  (pages 243--263)John Sutton
Instrumental or Immersed Experience: Pleasure, Pain and Object Perception in Locke.  (pages 265--285)Lisa Shapiro
Empiricism and Its Roots in the Ancient Medical Tradition.  (pages 287--308)Anik Waldow
Embodied Stimuli: Bonnet's Statue of a Sensitive Agent.  (pages 309--331)Tobias Cheung
Empiricist heresies in early modern medical thought.  (pages 333--344)Charles T. Wolfe

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Charles T. Wolfe
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