10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORPUSCULARIAN»
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Particles and Ideas: Bishop Berkeley's
Corpuscularian Philosophy
Demonstrating that in George Berkeley's last major work, Siris, Berkeley had converted to a belief in the usefulness of the concept and existence of minute particles, Moked here posits that Berkeley developed a highly original brand of ...
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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy
Such was the case with Descartes, Hobbes, and Gassendi. 1. Descartes: The
senses and the intellect Descartes adopted various strategies to justify his
corpuscularian philosophy and its new theory of the senses. In his early writings
he used ...
Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers, 2003
3
Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive Essays
With the existence of corpuscles comes the possibility of a Berkeleyan
corpuscular science, a corpuscularian science of idea- cluster things. The
materialist corpuscularian tries to find the hidden structures of insensible parts
that are invariably ...
Colin Murray Turbayne, 1982
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A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
This is an interesting thesis in that it attempts to provide conceptual foundations
for the theory, but it is surely also a disputable one, if matter is taken in the
substantive corpuscularian sense, as extended, impenetrable stuff. Boyle is
concerned ...
5
The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry
The corpuscularian doctrine was put forward almost simultaneously in a variety of
intellectual atmospheres, with Beeckman being the unsystematic explorer and
Gassendi and Descartes the men to seize upon his idea as a suitable means to ...
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The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics
To diagnose yet a third distinction, we need only observe the remarkable
coincidence between Locke's typical lists of primary qualities, and the lists of
basic physical qualities proffered by the corpuscularian natural philosophy
ofLocke's time.
Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew, 2009
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When Physics Became King
Their hope was to repeat the triumph of 1808, when Malus had carried off the
laurels with his corpuscularian study of refraction. There was even a staunch
Laplacian, Claude Pouillet, one of Biot's students, working on the problem. The
terms in ...
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Primary and Secondary Qualities: The Historical and Ongoing ...
Matter or body is identified as the substance of physical things, but it is explicitly
argued that neither Descartes' nor any rival corpuscularian definition of body
supplies a basis for demonstrative science, or is anything but arbitrary and purely
...
Locke would have learned, from Boyle's account of the phenomenology of colour,
that far more than micro-corpuscularian activity is involved in the physical
production of colours. Moreover, although he does not mention Newton's prism ...
Zvi Biener, Eric Schliesser, 2014
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Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and ...
And this leads to my last point against McCann's interpretation: Whereas Wilson's
interpretation portrays Locke as forward-thinking and astute in being alive to the
limitations of corpuscularian mechanism, McCann takes (1) as a fixed point and ...
Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo, Associate Professor of Philosophy Antonia Lolordo, 2013
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Boyle, in contrast, used the atomistic (or corpuscularian ) philosophy that was as fashionable in his day as Aristotelianism had been in previous ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 11»
