Empiricism and Rationalism in Nineteenth-Century Histories of Philosophy

Vanzo, Alberto

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“…Idealism can be said to be midspectrum on a scale in which the extremes are championed by rationalism and empiricism. Rationalists (i.e., René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza) claim that human beings have a priori knowledge of the world, while empiricists (i.e., Hume and John Locke) claim that knowledge is based in experience (Vanzo, ). When considering the existence of a fixed truth or reality, counselors should explore Kant's (1781/) position relative to ideological schools in counseling.…”

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An Idealist's View of Humanistic Psychotherapy

Palacios

2018

J Humanistic Counseling

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An Idealist's View of Humanistic Psychotherapy

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“…La lectura historiográfica más tradicional de la filosofía moderna se empeñó en enfatizar las diferencias que se pueden advertir entre Francis Bacon (1561-1626) y René Descartes (1596Descartes ( -1650, a los que caracterizó como los pioneros de dos linajes filosóficos, el empirismo y el racionalismo, que transitaron por caminos totalmente contrapuestos. Sin embargo, ese relato, que comenzó a instalarse hacia fines del siglo XIX, hoy en día es considerado por muchos como un cliché historiográfico (Haakonssen, 2006;Vanzo, 2016;Manzo, 2016a). Desde hace largo tiempo las y los investigadores han notado que son muchos los puntos de contacto entre las filosofías de Bacon y de Descartes.…”

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Francis Bacon Y René Descartes Acerca Del Dominio De La Naturaleza, La Autoconservación Y La Medicina*

Manzo

2022

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RESUMEN Francis Bacon y René Descartes han sido presentados tradicionalmente como pioneros de corrientes filosóficas opuestas entre sí. Sin embargo, son cada vez más los estudios que muestran importantes continuidades entre sus filosofías. Este artículo explora una de ellas: sus perspectivas sobre la medicina. El dominio sobre la naturaleza y el instinto de autoconservación son los elementos centrales del marco teórico dentro del cual se inserta su valoración de la medicina como la disciplina más destacada por sus beneficios para el cuidado del ser humano. A partir de ahí son muchas sus coincidencias acerca del estatus, la práctica y la reforma de la medicina.

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“…In general, recent historiographical discussions have outmoded the quest for such a founding figure by stressing the importance of the intellectual contexts in which philosophical empiricism emerged; by reflecting critically on empiricism as a historiographical category; and by highlighting how its supposed irreconcilability with rationalism was indeed an aposteriori construction that did not reflect the actors' perception (see for instance Sgarbi 2012;Dobre and Nyden 2013;Gaukroger 2014;Vanzo 2016;Feingold 2016;Bodenmann and Rey 2018; for a synthesis of the current debate, see Calvente and Manzo 2020).…”

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Who was the Founder of Empiricism After All? Gassendi and the ‘Logic’ of Bacon

Garau

2021

Perspectives on Science

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Contentions about the origin of early modern empiricism have been floating about at least since the 1980s, where its exclusive “Britishness” was initially question, and the name of Gassendi was provocatively put forward as the putative “founder” of the current to the detriment of Francis Bacon. Recent scholarship has shown that early modern empiricism did not derive from philosophical speculation exclusively but had multiple sources and “foundations.” Yet, from a historical viewpoint, the question whether Bacon’s method had any influence on the origin and development of Gassendi’s version of empiricism still carries significance, for its answer may open up different views on how the relation between British and “continental” empiricisms shall be framed. In this paper, I deal with Gassendi’s reception of Bacon. On the basis of a deep examination of Gassendi’s corpus, I contend that there is no trace of a consistent influence of Bacon on Gassendi’s empiricism before 1650s; although I show that an indirect influence can be found through the mediation of Peiresc, I put forward the hypothesis that it was more the empirical attitude characterizing Peiresc’s intellectual figure, rather than his interest in Baconianism, to be relevant, along with Epicurus’ philosophy, for Gassendi’s early empiricism. I then analyze Gassendi’s treatment of Bacon’s logic in Gassendi’s Syntagma philosophicum. I show that despite Gassendi’s sympathy for Bacon’s project, his own logic lays on fundamentally different assumptions. Despite this, I argue for Gassendi’s reception of Bacon’s theory of the idols in Syntagma philosophicum. On this basis, I conclude by restating the untenability of “national” accounts of the rise of empiricism, and the importance of highlighting instead the sharing of ideas between its actors.

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Empiricism and Rationalism in Nineteenth-Century Histories of Philosophy

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An Idealist's View of Humanistic Psychotherapy

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Francis Bacon Y René Descartes Acerca Del Dominio De La Naturaleza, La Autoconservación Y La Medicina*

Who was the Founder of Empiricism After All? Gassendi and the ‘Logic’ of Bacon

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