Article ID: CBB948023502

Pitfalls and Opportunities of Contextual Explanation: The Case of Isaac Beeckman’s Invention of the Mechanical Philosophy (2019)

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This study deals with some pitfalls and opportunities of contextual explanation in the history of science by examining the case of Isaac Beeckman’s invention of corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy. It makes use of ideas about contextual explanation—its dangers as well as more fruitful avenues of approach—that the author has expressed elsewhere in studies of Descartes’s intellectual biography, the historiography of the Scientific Revolution, and the internalism/externalism debate, as well as in articulations and criticisms of post-Kuhnian developments in the history and sociology of science.

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Authors & Contributors
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
David S. Sytsma
Garau, Rodolfo
Vermeir, Koen
Vampoulis, Epaminondas
Sutton, John R.
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Physics
Historiography
Historical method
Philosophy
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
18th century
Medieval
21st century
Places
Italy
Europe
England
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