Article ID: CBB613177451

Experiment, Speculation, and Galileo’s Scientific Reasoning (2015)

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Peter Anstey has criticized the traditional distinction between empiricism and rationalism. He proposes replacing it with a late seventeenth-century distinction: that between experimental and speculative natural philosophy. But the natural philosophy of Galileo Galilei cuts across this experimental-speculative divide. It resembles speculative natural philosophy insofar as its probative force depends upon a priori, mathematical reasoning. But it also resembles experimental natural philosophy insofar as the principles of such reasoning are tested against experience. To understand Galileo’s scientific reasoning we need to supplement the experimental-speculative distinction with a third category: that of a mathematically-oriented style of early modern natural philosophy.

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Authors & Contributors
Jalobeanu, Dana
Nyden, Tammy
Spink, Aaron
Labellarte, Alberto
Vanzo, Alberto
Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Experiments and experimentation
Empiricism
Observation
Experimental method
Philosophy
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
15th century
Places
Europe
Toulouse (France)
England
Italy
France
Institutions
Experimentalists
Royal Society of London
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