Hobbes on Space as Imaginary Space

Hobbes’s first elaboration of his doctrine of space is directed against the traditional discussion of spatium imaginarium which Thomas White is indebted to in his De mundo dialogi tres (1642). Breaking with the scholastic mode of conceiving spatium imagin

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Laura Berchielli  Editor

Empiricist Theories of Space

Space and Experience in Early Modern Philosophy

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Volume 54

Series Editor Catherine Abou-Nemeh, History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Advisory Board Steven French, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Nicholas Rasmussen, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia John Schuster, University of Sydney/Campion College, NSW, Australia Richard Yeo, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia Stephen Gaukroger, School of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Rachel Ankeny, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA, Australia Peter Anstey, School of Philosophical & Hist Inquiry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Clemency Montelle, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Ofer Gal, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Laura Berchielli Editor

Empiricist Theories of Space Space and Experience in Early Modern Philosophy

Editor Laura Berchielli Department of Philosophy Université Clermont Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand, France

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