History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2

by 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:	9780192647221
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	10/22/2020
Series:	History of Universities Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	535 KB

About the Author

Moredechai Feingold, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

Introduction: Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Academic Millieu, Andrea Sangiacomo
1. Fromondus verus Galileo on Comets, Roger Ariew
2. Institutioni scholasticae minime accommodata: de Neufville and Clauberg on Not Teaching Bacon, Stefan He br g gen-Walter
3. Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg and the German Reception of Cartesianism, Nabeel Hamid
4. Caspar Langenhert's Parisian 'School of Egoists' and the Reception of Geulincx' Physics, from Occasionalism to Solopsism, Michael Jaworzyn
5. 'Following no party but the truth': Petrus van Musschenbroek's rhetorical defence of '(Newtonian) experimental philosophy', Pieter Present
6. Speculative Philosophy at the Berlin Academy, Christian Leduc
7. The Normalization of Natural Philosophy: Occasional causality and Coarse-Grained Reality, Andrea Sangiacomo