Book ID: CBB001250419

Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (2011)

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Corneanu, Sorana (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: ix + 308 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for curing, ordering, and educating the mind toward an ethical purpose, an idea she tracks back to the ancient tradition of cultura animi. Corneanu traces this idea through its early modern revival and illustrates how it organizes the experimental philosophers' reflections on the discipline of judgment, the study of nature, and the study of Scripture. It is through this lens, the author suggests, that the core features of the early modern English experimental philosophy---including its defense of experience, its epistemic modesty, its communal nature, and its pursuit of objectivity---are best understood.

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Authors & Contributors
Yeo, Richard R.
Biener, Zvi
Simon, David Carroll
Schliesser, Eric
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Zaterka, Luciana
Concepts
Methodology of science; scientific method
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Experiments and experimentation
Epistemology
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
Medieval
19th century
16th century
Places
England
Europe
British Isles
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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