Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy

by Delphine Bellis (Editor), Daniel Garber (Editor), Carla Rita Palmerino (Editor)

Overview

Pierre Gassendi was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy whose philosophical and scientific works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity. This collection of essays constitutes the first book on Gassendi in the English language that covers his biography, bibliography, and all aspects of his work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032480435
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/07/2024
Series:	Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Delphine Bellis is Assistant Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France. She edited, together with Frederik A. Bakker and Carla Rita Palmerino, Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (2018).

Daniel Garber is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University (USA), with additional appointments in History of Science and Politics. Garber is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992) and Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (2009), as well as numerous articles.

Carla Rita Palmerino is Professor in the History of Modern Philosophy, and Director of the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 1998, she discovered the last missing piece of Gassendi's manuscript De vita et doctrina Epicuri in the library of the British Museum.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Gassendi’s Epicurean Project, its Genesis and its Sources 1. The Life and Work of Pierre Gassendi Sylvie Taussig 2. Gassendi’s Exercitationes Paradoxicae adversus Aristoteleos: An Intellectual Biography Daniel Garber 3. Gassendi’s Interplay between Skepticism and Empiricism Gianni Paganini 4. Gassendi and Epicureanism Saul Fisher 5. Tranquility as the Highest Good: Gassendi Between Epicurus and Cicero Donald Rutherford Part 2: Gassendi the Polemist 6. Gassendi in the Philosophical Debate: Stakes of the Essay concerning the principles of Robert Fludd’s Philosophy (1630) Édouard Mehl 7. Gassendi’s Critique of Descartes Antonia LoLordo Part 3: Gassendi’s Science and Philosophy in Context 8. Gassendi’s Logic Rodolfo Garau 9. Gassendi’s Theory of Space and Time Delphine Bellis 10. Pierre Gassendi and the New Science of Motion Carla Rita Palmerino 11. Astronomy, Cosmology, and the Limit of Empiricism in Gassendi’s Thought Kuni Sakamoto 12. Gassendi’s Theory of Living Beings François Duchesneau 13. “The best philosopher in France”: The Reception of Gassendi’s Natural Philosophy in England Antonio Clericuzio