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Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy

Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book Series (volume 240)

Editors: Wolfe, Charles T.; Pecere, Paolo; Clericuzio, Antonio

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07036-5

ISBN: 978-3-031-07035-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2022

1 - 10 of 18 Chapters

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Introduction: Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy

Clericuzio, Antonio; Pecere, Paolo; Wolfe, Charles T.

Pages: 1 –8

[Why a new volume on mechanism, life and mind in early modern thought, combining natural philosophy and more purely philosophical inquiries? Mechanism is the central focus here, as applied to the two key areas of reflections on life, and on the mind. We build on the active scholarship in recent...
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Scaliger Bacon Harvey Glisson: A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life

Giglioni, Guido

Pages: 11 –25

[Early modern views on vegetative life presuppose the existence of a specific kind of transformative action that several physicians and philosophers at the time called ‘perception’ (perceptio). This chapter examines the way in which this idea evolved between the sixteenth and the seventeenth...
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Jacob Schegk on Plants, Medicaments, and the Question of Emergence

Blank, Andreas

Pages: 27 –47

[The view that living beings as well as plant-based medicaments possess causal properties that are caused by the causal properties of their constituents, without being reducible to the combination of the causal properties of these constituents, goes back to ancient thinkers such as Alexander of...
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Particles, Universal Spirit and Seeds: John Evelyn’s Theory of Matter in Elysium Britannicum

Matei, Oana

Pages: 49 –66

[This paper investigates John Evelyn’s theory of matter in Elysium Britannicum and the way he explains fundamental processes of nature, such as fermentation. A work of a lifetime, Evelyn composed Elysium Britannicum through several stages of correction and modification according to the multiple...
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Stimulus and Fibre Theory in Giorgio Baglivi’s Medicine: A Reassessment

Tonetti, Luca

Pages: 67 –82

[In his seminal paper La notion de fibre vivante chez les médecins de l’école iatrophysique, Mirko Grmek has shown the pivotal role of Giorgio Baglivi in the early-modern debate on fibres. However, despite numerous studies on this issue, Baglivi’s work is still largely unexplored. Surprisingly...
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‘Febris non est morbus, sed bellum contra morbum’. A Study of Seventeenth-Century Theories of Fever

Clericuzio, Antonio

Pages: 83 –102

[This paper offers a survey of the seventeenth-century debate on fevers, trying to elucidate the practical and the theoretical issues involved in the investigation of fevers. Galen’s view of fevers provided the foundation to most sixteenth and early seventeenth century accounts thereof. Galen’s...
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‘The Operation of Nature Is Different from Mechanism’: Cudworth’s Account of Plastic Nature and Its Plotinian Background

Chiaradonna, Riccardo

Pages: 103 –118

[The present paper investigates Ralph Cudworth’s reception of Plotinus against the background of Cudworth’s anti-mechanist polemic. Cudworth’s account of plastic nature is clearly indebted to Plotinus (see, in particular, Plotinus’ treatise III.8 On Nature and Contemplation and the One). Both...
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The Chain of Motions and the Chain of Thoughts. The Diachronic Mechanism of Spinoza’s Friends

Andrault, Raphaële

Pages: 119 –135

[This chapter introduces the notion of “diachronic mechanism” to account for experimental approaches to living phenomena that were developed in Spinoza’s circle in the late seventeenth-century. This notion of “diachronic mechanism” allows me to distinguish two compatible types of mechanistic...
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Both Natural and Supernatural: Leibniz’s Integrated Model of Life

Nunziante, Antonio M.

Pages: 137 –153

[There is a sense in which Leibniz’s naturalism, long before ours, had come to terms with the problem of normativity. The core of his mature reflections was in fact inhabited by a strong conflict of ontological as well as of epistemological models. On the one hand there was in fact the lexicon of...
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Experience, Analogy and Mechanism in Maupertuis’s Theory of Generation

Storni, Marco

Pages: 155 –174

[At the mid-eighteenth century, the formulation of alternative theories undermined the hegemony of preexistence in the debate on animal generation. The new theories were characterized by a revival of epigenesis, and by a naturalization of the explanatory models. A key text in the mid-century...

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