Mechanism, life and mind in modern natural philosophy / Charles T. Wolfe, Paolo Pecere, Antonio Clericuzio, editors.
| Other author | Wolfe, Charles T., editor. |
| Other author | Pecere, Paolo, editor. |
| Other author | Clericuzio, Antonio, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022] |
| Copyright Date | ©2022 |
| Description | vii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Electronic Location | 1850-9999 |
| Subjects |
| Series | International archives of the history of ideas ; 240 Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 240. ^A494673 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part I. Life and Mechanism. Scaliger Bacon Harvey Glisson : A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life / Guido Giglioni -- Jacob Schegk on Plants, Medicaments, and the Question of Emergence / Andreas Blank -- Particles, universal spirit, and seeds : John Evelyn's theory of matter in Elysium Britannicum / Oana Matei -- Stimulus and fibre theory in Giorgio Baglivi's medicine : a reassessment / Luca Tonetti -- 'Febris non est morbus, sed bellum contra morbum' : a study of seventeenth-century theories of fever / Antonio Clericuzio -- 'The operation of nature is different from mechanism' : Cudworth's account of plastic nature and its Plotinian background / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- The chain of motions and the chain of thoughts : the diachronic mechanism of Spinoza's friends / Raphaële Andrault -- Both natural and supernatural : Leibniz's integrated model of life / Antonio M. Nunziante -- Experience, analogy and mechanism in Maupertuis's theory of generation / Marco Storni -- "Nutrition, vital mechanisms and the ontology of life" / Cécilia Bognon-Küss -- Expanded Mechanism and/or Structural Vitalism : Further Thoughts on the Animal Economy / Charles T. Wolfe -- Part II. Mechanisms of the Mind. Powers of the Body and Eclipse of the Soul : From Descartes On / Emanuela Scribano -- Shaftesbury's Conception of Human Thought / Ursula Renz -- Psychology and Mechanism : Christian Wolff on the Soul-Body Analogy / Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero -- Mental Machinery and Active Powers from Hartley to Ward / Federico Boccaccini -- Mechanism, Organization, Mind : A Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth Century Psychology / Paolo Pecere -- Organic Memory and the Perils of Perigenesis : The Helmholtz-Hering Debate / Lydia Patton. |
| Abstract | "This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It will be of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories"--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Terms of use | Current copyright fee: GBP19.00 42\0. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| ISBN | 9783031070358 (hbk.) : |
| ISBN | 3031070356 |
| ISBN | ebook |