Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment /
Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emoti...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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