scholarly journals VI. A physico-mathematical demonstration of the impossibility and insufficiency of vortices

1740 ◽  
Vol 41 (457) ◽  
pp. 409-435
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Demonstration ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Inferior Class

That natural Philosophers of an inferior Class, who consider only the Outside of Things, are Obstinate in the Defence of Vortices , is, in my Opinion, not to be wondered at: The Idea of them strikes the Mind very agreeably at first, and even seems to promise the true Mechanism.

Unveiling Nature: Wonder and Deception in Eighteenth-Century London Shows and Exhibitions

Nuncius ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lavinia Maddaluno
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

This paper examines six exhibitions of machines, clocks, and automata which were performed in the squares, salons and coffee-houses of late eighteenth-century London. It does not take into account those natural philosophers whose enquiries were acknowledged by institutional science, rather focusing on those mechanicks, illusionists, and circus owners (Gulielmo Pittachio, John Joseph Merlin, Benjamin Rackstrow, Henry Breslaw, Philip Astley and James Cox), often collocated in the category of charlatans. By taking into account original advertisements, catalogues and pamphlets, it argues that these shows, with their moments of veiling and unveiling, their dissimilar “methods” to astonish and induce credulity in the beholders, and their separation from institutional venues, were still conceived as places to enlighten and edify the mind, and conveyed concepts such as wonder, deception, curiosity and philosophical understanding to the public.

Science Influences Philosophy

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Steven L. Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Probabilistic Theory ◽  
New Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Invented Instruments ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
The Mind

The claims of the new natural philosophers that their methodical reasoning and newly invented instruments produced knowledge of reality had a profound effect on contemporary mainstream philosophers. Hobbes allied himself with the rationalist pursuers of certainty but rejected the ability of experimental philosophy to reveal certain truths about nature. Gassendi defended a probabilistic theory of knowledge, while Locke’s theory of knowledge accepted “moral,” or near, certainty as a limit to knowledge of reality. Berkeley reinterpreted the materialistic ontology underlying the new science, arguing the metaphysical character played in it by the concept matter. Hume formulated an openly skeptical theory of knowledge of the world, arguing the metaphysical character of the roles played by causality and induction in the new natural philosophy. Kant responded by creating a philosophy that restored certainty to knowledge, but its object was now experience, not a reality independent of the mind.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

Metaphors in the Mind

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette Littlemore
Keyword(s):  
The Mind

The Mind at Work

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. T. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
The Mind
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