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| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy And Science Saul Fisher, 2005 This study of Gassendi's philosophy and science puts forth the view that his atomism follows from his empiricism: as an outgrowth of our best theory of knowledge and sound scientific method, we get evidence that warrents the micorphysical theory. |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy Antonia LoLordo, 2009-11-05 This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a systematic overview of his contributions, LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy. LoLordo's work will be essential reading for historians of early modern philosophy and science. |
| gassendi: The Selected Works of Pierre Gassendi Pierre Gassendi, 1972 |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy Antonia LoLordo, 2006-10-30 This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a systematic overview of his contributions, LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy. LoLordo's work will be essential reading for historians of early modern philosophy and science. |
| gassendi: Gassendi the Atomist Lynn Sumida Joy, 2002-08-08 An account of Gassendi's life and work, illuminating the influence of humanism on seventeenth-century thought. |
| gassendi: Gassendi's Ethics Lisa T. Sarasohn, 2018-10-18 This is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-century French priest who rehabilitated Epicurean philosophy in the Western tradition. Lisa T. Sarasohn's discussion of the relationship between Gassendi's philosophy of nature and his ethics discloses the underlying unity of his philosophy and elucidates this critical figure in the intellectual revolution.Sarasohn demonstrates that Gassendi's ethics was an important part of his attempt to Christianize Epicureanism. She shows how Gassendi integrated ideas of human freedom into a neo-Epicurean ethic where pleasure is the highest good, yet maintained a consistent belief in Christian providence. These views challenged what were then the new systems of philosophy, Hobbesian materialism and Cartesian rationalism. Sarasohn places Gassendi in his historical and intellectual context, considering him in relation to contemporary philosophers and within the patronage system that conditioned his own freedom. She investigates the links between his ethical thought and philosophy of science and makes sense of his attacks on astrology. Finally, her work clarifies Pierre Gassendi's considerable influence on seventeenth-century ethical and political philosophy, particularly on the work of John Locke—and thus on the whole English liberal tradition in political philosophy. |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi B. Brundell, 2012-12-06 Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) lived in three civilizations in the span of one life-time: medieval ecclesiastic, Renaissance humanist and modern and he never cut himself loose from any of them. It is probably scientific; because he managed to be at home in all three that history has allocated to him a position somewhere on the fringe of the inner circle of genius in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. While he was not a front-runner, Gassendi was nevertheless a pioneer of modern corpuscularianism and his influence on the development of empirical science was truly international. It is precisely because Gassendi was a figure of the second rank - a significant but lesser luminary - that we need to examine his work closely, for the less famous contemporaries help us to explain what the great ones do. It might seem that Gassendi has received his share of attention from scholars, even though it is sometimes suggested otherwise. Several full length monographs have been published in the past three decades, and there have been a number of articles in scholarly journals. Yet, despite the indisputable worth of these studies, the picture of Gassendi that has emerged from them has been partial and at times wide of the mark, so that the true story remains to be told. |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber, Carla Rita Palmerino, 2023-04-21 Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science and his works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity. Among “new philosophers,” he was considered Descartes’s main rival, and he belonged to the first rank of those attempting to carve out an alternative to Aristotelian philosophy. In his writings, he promoted a revival of atomism and Epicureanism within a Christian framework, and advocated an empiricist and probabilistic epistemology which was to have a major impact on later thinkers such as Locke and Newton. He is moreover important for his astronomical work, for his defense of Galileo’s mechanics and cosmology, and for his activity as a biographer. Given the importance of Gassendi for the history of science and philosophy, it is surprising to see that he has been largely ignored in the Anglophone world. 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. The book is divided into three parts. Part I offers a reconstruction of the genesis of Gassendi’s Epicurean project, an overview of his biography, and analyses of Gassendi’s early attacks on Aristotle, of his advocacy of Epicurean philosophy, and his relation to the skeptical tradition and to Cicero’s thought. Part II addresses Gassendi as a participant in seventeenth-century philosophical and scientific debates, focusing especially on his controversies with Descartes and Fludd. Part III explores Gassendi’s contributions to logic, theories of space and time, mechanics, astronomy, cosmology, and the study of living beings, and presents the reception of Gassendi’s thought in England. This book is an essential resource for scholars and upper-level students of early modern philosophy, intellectual history, and the history of science who want to get acquainted with Pierre Gassendi as a major philosopher and intellectual figure of the early modern period. |
| gassendi: The Philosophy of Gassendi George Sidney Brett, 1908 |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists Saul Fisher, 2005-12-01 This look at Gassendi’s philosophy and science illuminates his contributions to early modern thought and to the broader history of philosophy of science. Two keys to his thought are his novel picture of acquiring and judging empirical belief, and his liberal account of criteria for counting empirical beliefs as parts of warranted physical theories. By viewing his philosophical and scientific pursuits as part of one and the same project, Gassendi’s arguments on behalf of atomism can be fruitfully explained as licensed by his empiricism. |
| gassendi: Meditations, Objections, and Replies René Descartes, 2006-03-30 This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception. |
| gassendi: Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue and Liberty Pierre Gassendi, 2014-03-30 This Is A New Release Of The Original 1699 Edition. |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655): An Intellectual Biography Howard Jones, 1981 The first full-length study in English of Gassendi's life and work. I. The Man and his Work II. Gassendi the Critic (separate chapters devoted to the Aristoteleans, Herbert of Cherbury and Descartes) III. Gassendi the Philosopher |
| gassendi: Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology James Mark Baldwin, 1905 |
| gassendi: Gassendi's View of Knowledge Howard Thomas Egan, 1984 |
| gassendi: Meditations on First Philosophy René Descartes, 2000 |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi's Institutio Logica (1658) Pierre Gassendi, Howard Jones, 1981 |
| gassendi: Collated List of Lunar Formations Named Or Lettered in the Maps of Neison, Schmidt, and Mädler , 1913 |
| gassendi: Collated List of Lunar Formations Named Or Lettered in the Maps of Neilson, Schmidt, and Mädler International Association of Academies. Lunar nomenclature committee, 1913 |
| gassendi: The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism Steven M. Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, Delphine Antoine-Mahut, 2019 An illustrious team of scholars offer a rich survey of the thought of Rene Descartes; of the development of his ideas by those who followed in his footsteps; and of the reaction against Cartesianism. Epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics are all covered. |
| gassendi: Pierre Gassendi, 1592-1655 Howard Jones, 1981 The first full-length study in English of Gassendi's life and work. I. The Man and his Work - II. Gassendi the Critic (separate chapters devoted to the Aristoteleans, Herbert of Cherbury and Descartes) - III. Gassendi the Philosopher. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXXIV). |
| gassendi: International Journal of Ethics , 1910 Includes section Book reviews. |
| gassendi: Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology James Mark Baldwin, 1960 |
| gassendi: The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543) Pierre Gassendi, Olivier Thill, 2002 |
| gassendi: The Moon and the Condition and Configurations of Its Surface Edmund Neison, 1876 |
| gassendi: Works Henry Hallam, 1880 |
| gassendi: Gassendi's Ethics Lisa T. Sarasohn, 1996 Sarasohn places Gassendi in his historical and intellectual context, considering him in relation to contemporary philosophers and within the patronage system that conditioned his own freedom. She investigates the links between his ethical thought and philosophy of science and makes sense of his attacks on astrology. |
| gassendi: Haldeman-Julius Quarterly , 1927 |
| gassendi: Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries Henry Hallam, 1884 |
| gassendi: Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Margaret J. Osler, 2004-06-07 The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded necessary relations, some of which enable us to have a priori knowledge of substantial parts of the natural world. In this book, Professor Osler explores theological conceptions of contingency and necessity in the world and how these ideas influenced the development of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. She examines the transformation of medieval ideas about God's relationship to the Creation into seventeenth-century ideas about matter and method as embodied in early articulations of the mechanical philosophy. Refracted through the prism of the mechanical philosophy, these theological conceptualizations of contingency and necessity in the world were mirrored in different styles of science that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century. |
| gassendi: History of Materialism: History of materialism until Kant Friedrich Albert Lange, 1877 |
| gassendi: History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance Friedrich Albert Lange, Ernest Chester Thomas, 1881 |
| gassendi: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Middle Temple Middle Temple (London, England). Library, 1880 |
| gassendi: Catalogue of the printed books London middle temple, libr, 1880 |
| gassendi: Nature London , 1873 |
| gassendi: Nature Sir Norman Lockyer, 1873 |
| gassendi: Exercitationes paradoxicæ adversus Aristoteleos, in quibus præcipua totius Peripateticæ doctrinæ fundamenta excutiuntur, etc Pierre Gassendi, 1649 |
| gassendi: Lectures on metaphysics , 1870 |
| gassendi: The History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance: Materialism in antiquity Friedrich Albert Lange, Ernest Chester Thomas, 1879 |
| gassendi: A Manual of the History of Philosophy Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann, 1873 |
Pierre Gassendi - Wikipedia
Pierre Gassendi (French: [pjɛʁ gasɛ̃di]; [5] also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi, Petrus Gassendus; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, …
Pierre Gassendi - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 31, 2005 · Pierre Gassendi (b. 1592, d. 1655) was a French philosopher, scientific chronicler, observer, and experimentalist, scholar of ancient texts and debates, and active participant in …
Pierre Gassendi | Biography, Discoveries, & Facts | Britannica
Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, who revived Epicureanism as a substitute for Aristotelianism, attempting in the process to reconcile mechanistic atomism …
Biography of Pierre Gassendi - University of Rochester
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, astronomer, empiricist, and priest who lived from 1592-1655. Gassendi believed that knowledge and evidence of the external world derived …
Gassendi Historical Marker
Nov 2, 2024 · Born on January 22, 1592 in the village of Champtercier, near Digne, the astronomer Pierre Gassendi was a figure of Parisian intellectual life, in the circle of scholars …
Pierre Gassendi - New World Encyclopedia
Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism …
Pierre Gassendi - philosophyprofessor.com
Pierre Gassendi was a figure of immense intellectual vigor in the 17th century, whose interests and influence traversed several domains of thought and science.
Pierre Gassendi - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 31, 2005 · Pierre Gassendi (b. 1592, d. 1655) was a French philosopher, scientific chronicler, observer, and experimentalist, scholar of ancient texts and debates, and active participant in …
Gassendi, Pierre (1592–1655) - The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
Jan 5, 2016 · Born at Champtercier in Provence on January 22, 1592, Gassendi is best known today as the author of the notoriously hostile Fifth Objections to Descartes’ Meditations. He …
Pierre Gassendi - Encyclopedia.com
French Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, and Priest. P ierre Gassendi is best known as the seventeenth-century rehabilitator of the atomism of the ancient Greek moralist and natural …
Pierre Gassendi - Wikipedia
Pierre Gassendi (French: [pjɛʁ gasɛ̃di]; [5] also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi, Petrus Gassendus; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, …
Pierre Gassendi - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 31, 2005 · Pierre Gassendi (b. 1592, d. 1655) was a French philosopher, scientific chronicler, observer, and experimentalist, scholar of ancient texts and debates, and active participant in …
Pierre Gassendi | Biography, Discoveries, & Facts | Britannica
Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, who revived Epicureanism as a substitute for Aristotelianism, attempting in the process to reconcile mechanistic atomism …
Biography of Pierre Gassendi - University of Rochester
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, astronomer, empiricist, and priest who lived from 1592-1655. Gassendi believed that knowledge and evidence of the external world derived …
Gassendi Historical Marker
Nov 2, 2024 · Born on January 22, 1592 in the village of Champtercier, near Digne, the astronomer Pierre Gassendi was a figure of Parisian intellectual life, in the circle of scholars …
Pierre Gassendi - New World Encyclopedia
Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism …
Pierre Gassendi - philosophyprofessor.com
Pierre Gassendi was a figure of immense intellectual vigor in the 17th century, whose interests and influence traversed several domains of thought and science.
Pierre Gassendi - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 31, 2005 · Pierre Gassendi (b. 1592, d. 1655) was a French philosopher, scientific chronicler, observer, and experimentalist, scholar of ancient texts and debates, and active participant in …
Gassendi, Pierre (1592–1655) - The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
Jan 5, 2016 · Born at Champtercier in Provence on January 22, 1592, Gassendi is best known today as the author of the notoriously hostile Fifth Objections to Descartes’ Meditations. He …
Pierre Gassendi - Encyclopedia.com
French Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, and Priest. P ierre Gassendi is best known as the seventeenth-century rehabilitator of the atomism of the ancient Greek moralist and natural …
