This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukrogers thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (19502023) was one of the preeminent specialists of early modern science and philosophy, particularly their interrelations including under the heading natural philosophy, on the international scene, since the 1980s, starting with his prominent Cartesian scholarship (and biography) and moving towards the formidable 4-volume series on science and the shaping of modernity (from Emergence of a Scientific Culture to Civilization and the Culture of Science), dealing not just with early modernity but with the Enlightenment, German Romanticism and 20th-century society. This volume covers the thought of this highly-recognized scholar and engages with his works covering early modern philosophy, enlightenment, and contemporary periods, making it a must-read for any philosopher and historian of science.
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. Descartes after Gaukroger.-
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3. Abiding, Fruitful (and Never 'Vehement'): Forty Years of
Historiographical Dialogue with Steve Gaukroger.
Chapter
4. In Praise of an
Independent Thinker Stephen Gaukrogers Methods, Concepts, and Command of
Languages.
Chapter
5. Remarks on Philosophy and Friendship.
Chapter
6.
Optimism.
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7. Gaukroger autonomy of phenomenal explanation.
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8. Religion and the Social Legitimation of Science.
Chapter
9. Science and
Scepticism: Navigating Knowledge, Belief, and Faith.
Chapter
10. Some
Reflections on Gaukrogers Descartes.
Chapter
11. Debt to Bacon: On
Communicating Knowledge and Ignorance in the Discourse on the Method.-
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12. Gaukroger's Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: A few
Dilemmas of Descartess Physics.
Chapter
13. Peering horizontally through
microscopes: Stephen Gaukroger explains the middling world.
Chapter
14.
Neros Ingratitude: Spinoza and the Naturalisation of Sin.
Chapter
15. The
Great Spinoza Controversy of the 1780s: the Role of Frans Hemsterhuis
(1721-1790).
Chapter
16. The Philosophical Personae of Joseph Weber
(1753-1831): Catholic Philosopher-Priest at the University of Dillingen.-
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17. The History of the Humanities and the History of Science in the
Early Natural History of the Kangaroo.
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18. The Life-Made World of
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
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19. Romanticism and Empiricism or Romantic
Empiricism.
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20. Georg Forster and Therese Hubers Adventure to New
Holland.
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21. Sense, Sensibility, Sensitivity, or, Why was the 18th
Century more Sentimental than the 17th Century?.
Chapter
22. A physiology of
resurrection? Bonnet as reader of Malebranche.
Chapter
23. Mandeville on
Medical Men.
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24. The Genre Of the Natural History Of Man Through
Stephen Gaukrogers Lens. Intellectual Sentiments Within Stadial History:
Giambattista Vico, The Encyclopédie, Adam Smith.
Chapter
25. Humean
Chemistry: Chemical Philosophy and Philosophical Chemistry in David Hume and
William Cullen.
Chapter
26. Wheres Lucian? Failure and historical
compromise in the History of Philosophy.
Chapter
27. Steven Gaukroger on
philosophical failure.
Chapter
28. What Kind of Philosophy Might Survive the
History of Its Failures? Gadamerian Reflections on Stephen Gaukrogers The
Failures of Philosophy.
Chapter
29. On the New Nature and the Impact of
Synthetic Philosophy on Cosmogenic Speculation.
Chapter
30. A Naturalist
Philosopher.
Chapter
31. Stephen Gaukroger and the neutrality of historical
epistemology.
Chapter
32. Geopraxis and Historical Materialism. For a
Humanistic Environmentalism.
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33. The Mentor and Educator in the
Persona of the Scholar.- Chapter
34. What I learned from Stephen.
Chapter
35. Orientation in Space, Thought and Life. Continuing some recent
conversations with Stephen.
Chapter
36. A bibliography of Stephen
Gaukrogers publications.
Charles T. Wolfe is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurčs. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (2016), La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme (2019) and Lire le matérialisme (2020), and has edited or coedited volumes on empiricism, mechanism and vitalism, Locke and Canguilhem, monsters, brains and biology.
Anik Waldow is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (2020) and has edited several volumes, including Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective Morality (2016) and Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (with N. DeSouza, 2017).
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