Article ID: CBB000760677

Continuity and Change in the Empiricism of John Locke and Gerardus de Vries (1648--1705) (2007)

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Locke has often been hailed as the father of an empiricism that provided a philosophical basis to natural science in the Age of Enlightenment. In this article his empiricism is compared with that of the little known Dutch Aristotelian professor Gerardus de Vries. There are striking parallels between Locke's brand of mechanist empiricism and the pragmatic and flexible Aristotelianism of De Vries. These parallels put strictures on both the archaic character of the Aristotelianism embraced by De Vries and on the modern and forward-looking character of Locke's philosophy of science.

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Authors & Contributors
Sgarbi, Marco
Gaukroger, Stephen W.
Lenzi, Massimiliano
Franco D'Intino
Antonella Pagano
Elisabetta Orsini
Concepts
Empiricism
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Aristotelianism
Epistemology
Experimental method
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Enlightenment
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
Toulouse (France)
England
France
Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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