Group blog
We are four students of early modern philosophy based at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Otago in New Zealand. This is the blog of our research project which is entitled "Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism"...
In this blog, we would like to share and discuss our ideas and research with you. We'll also let you know about forthcoming events and recent publications which are relevant to our research. Whether you are a philosopher, an intellectual historian, a historian of philosophy or science, or you just have an interest for figures such as Boyle, Locke, Newton or Kant, we hope you'll find these pages interesting.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Ideas Newton experimental philosophy Events ESD Boyle natural philosophy empiricism Spain experiment natural history Baconian principia Locke history of science rationalism speculative philosophy methodology Bacon Leibniz
Antoine Le Grand, Robert Boyle and Speculative Philosophy
16 June 2020
Peter Anstey writes… Antoine Le Grand (1629–1699) was probably the most important Cartesian philosopher living in England in the latter decades of the seventeenth century....
Nicolas Malebranche: Critic of Experimental Philosophy
25 March 2020
Peter Anstey writes … There were many critics of experimental philosophy in its early years. On this blog we have discussed the criticisms of Margaret Cavendish and Francis Bampfield,...
A New Volume on Early Modern Experimental Philosophy
27 March 2019
Alberto Vanzo and Peter Anstey are pleased to announce the publication of Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 2019. This is the first...
The Darker Side of Baconianism
5 December 2018
Kirsten Walsh writes… In my last post, I explained how Newton’s theory of the tides relied on empirical data drawn from all over the world. The Royal Society used its influence...