The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

Abstract

1. Charles T. Wolfe and Ofer Gal, Embodied Empiricism THE BODY AS OBJECT 2. Hal Cook, Victories for Empiricism, Failures for Theory: Medicine and Science in the Seventeenth Century 3. Cynthia Klestinec, Practical Experience In Anatomy 4. Alan Salter, Early Modern Empiricism and the Discourse of the Senses 5. Victor Boantza, Alkahest and Fire: Debating Matter, Chymistry, and Natural History at the Early Parisian Academy of Sciences (75-92) 6. Peter Anstey, John Locke and Helmontian Medicine THE BODY AS INSTRUMENT 7. Ofer Gal & Raz Chen-Morris, Empiricism Without The Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye 8. Guido Giglioni, Mastering the Appetites of Matter. Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum 9. Justin E. H. Smith, ‘A Corporall Philosophy’: Language And ‘Body-Making’ In The Work Of John Bulwer (1606-1656) 10. Richard Yeo, Memory and Empirical Information: Samuel Hartlib, John Beale and Robert Boyle 11. Snait Gissis, Lamarck on Feelings: From Worms to Humans EMBODIED MINDS 12. John Sutton, Carelessness and Inattention: Mind-Wandering and the Physiology of Fantasy From Locke to Hume 13. Lisa Shapiro, Instrumental or Immersed Experience: Pleasure, Pain and Object Perception in Locke 14. Anik Waldow, Empiricism and its Roots in the Ancient Medical Tradition 15. Tobias Cheung, Embodied Stimuli: Bonnet’s Statue of a Sensitive Agent 16. Charles T. Wolfe, Empiricist Heresies In Early Modern Medical Thought