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Descartes-AgonistesConceptual and Historiographical Foundations—Natural Philosophy, Mixed Mathematics, Physico-mathematics, Method

Descartes-Agonistes: Conceptual and Historiographical Foundations—Natural Philosophy, Mixed... [This chapter examines a number of conceptual and historiographical issues which frame the entire project. First of all, a model is constructed for how the increasingly competitive and turbulent culture of natural philosophizing worked in the era of Descartes. This model also addresses the question of the place of the subordinate mixed mathematical sciences, and the meaning Descartes, and others, attached to the idea of a physico-mathematics, that would render those mixed sciences more properly ‘natural philosophical’. Also presented are the generic rules of construction and contestation which governed natural philosophizing; a model for dealing with the problem of ‘external or contextual’ drivers of natural philosophical utterance; an heuristic model for assessing the nature and degree of ‘systematicity’ of a natural philosophy; and an outline of the main phases in the trajectory of natural philosophizing in the period of the Scientific Revolution, so that Descartes’ location and role can be better identified. Additionally, the basis is set down for the deconstruction of Descartes’ method, which takes place in Chap. 6.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Descartes-AgonistesConceptual and Historiographical Foundations—Natural Philosophy, Mixed Mathematics, Physico-mathematics, Method

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 27)
Schuster, John
Descartes-Agonistes — Aug 14, 2012
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
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978-94-007-4745-6
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31 –98
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10.1007/978-94-007-4746-3_2
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[This chapter examines a number of conceptual and historiographical issues which frame the entire project. First of all, a model is constructed for how the increasingly competitive and turbulent culture of natural philosophizing worked in the era of Descartes. This model also addresses the question of the place of the subordinate mixed mathematical sciences, and the meaning Descartes, and others, attached to the idea of a physico-mathematics, that would render those mixed sciences more properly ‘natural philosophical’. Also presented are the generic rules of construction and contestation which governed natural philosophizing; a model for dealing with the problem of ‘external or contextual’ drivers of natural philosophical utterance; an heuristic model for assessing the nature and degree of ‘systematicity’ of a natural philosophy; and an outline of the main phases in the trajectory of natural philosophizing in the period of the Scientific Revolution, so that Descartes’ location and role can be better identified. Additionally, the basis is set down for the deconstruction of Descartes’ method, which takes place in Chap. 6.]

Published: Aug 14, 2012

Keywords: Seventeenth Century; Sixteenth Century; Geometrical Optic; Scientific Revolution; Scientific Tradition

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