History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2

by Andrea Sangiacomo, Mordechai Feingold (Editor)

Overview

This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192893833
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/22/2020
Series:	History of Universities Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mordechai Feingold, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology, Andrea Sangiacomo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Groningen

Table of Contents

Introduction: Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Academic Millieu, Andrea Sangiacomo1. Fromondus verus Galileo on Comets, Roger Ariew2. Institutioni scholasticae minime accommodata: de Neufville and Clauberg on Not Teaching Bacon, Stefan Heßbrüg gen-Walter3. Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg and the German Reception of Cartesianism, Nabeel Hamid4. Methods of Teaching or Discovery? Analysis and Synthesis from Zabarella to Spinoza, Helen Hattab5. Caspar Langenhert's Parisian 'School of Egoists' and the Reception of Geulincx' Physics, from Occasionalism to Solopsism, Michael Jaworzyn6. 'Following no party but the truth': Petrus van Musschenbroek's rhetorical defence of '(Newtonian) experimental philosophy', Pieter Present7. Speculative Philosophy at the Berlin Academy, Christian Leduc8. The Normalization of Natural Philosophy: Occasional causality and Coarse-Grained Reality, Andrea Sangiacomo