Abstract

CARDENAS BARRETO, José Luis. Conflicts of experimental philosophy in the seventeenth century. Prax. filos. [online]. 2015, n.41, pp.57-79. ISSN 0120-4688.

In this article I want to explore the idea that experimental philosophy developed in England in the 1660s was a proposal with two main objectives: i) to consolidate a new way of investigating nature that would permit understanding its diversity and complexity, through the use of experiments and the rejection of speculative hypotheses as the main strategies to develop, implement and defend; ii) it demanded from natural philosophers of the time a new attitude based on the expertise and caution when developing explanatory systems, which in many cases conflicted with the interests of the researchers themselves. This tension permits identifying some interesting differences between speculative natural philosophy of the seventeenth century and the emerging experimental philosophy, differences that are not always considered by scholars of early modern philosophy

Keywords : natural philosophy; experiment; methodology; Bacon; Hooke.

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