Dutch Cartesian Empiricism and the Advent of Newtonianism
At least since Voltaire, the perception of Cartesianism has often suffered from comparison to Newtonianism. In particular, Descartes’ ‘Rationalism’ has been regarded as basically flawed on account of its incompatibility with Newton’s approach to natural p
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Mihnea Dobre Tammy Nyden Editors
Cartesian Empiricisms
Cartesian Empiricisms
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 31
General Editor: STEPHEN GAUKROGER, University of Sydney
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Mihnea Dobre • Tammy Nyden Editors
Cartesian Empiricisms
Editors Mihnea Dobre Faculty of Philosophy University of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania
Tammy Nyden Philosophy Department Grinnell College Grinnell, IA, USA
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Acknowledgments
This volume grew out of discussions during the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Earl
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