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Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists
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Saul Fisher
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November 11 2005
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9789047416579
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9789004119963
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November 11 2005
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10.1163/9789047416579
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Book chapters
pp. i
Preliminary Material
pp. 1
Introduction: Basses-Alpes Priest, Provençal Scientist, and Parisian Philosopher
pp. 17
Chapter One: The Skeptical Challenge, an Empiricist Response, and a Physicalist Theory of Perceptual Belief
pp. 43
Chapter Two: The Theory of Signs: Cautious License for Truth-Like Empirical Belief
pp. 55
Chapter Three: Empiricist Epistemic Warrant, and Probabilist and Anti-Essentialist Consequences
pp. 87
Chapter Four: Methodological Pursuits: The Regressus Recast, Induction, and Probability
pp. 123
Chapter Five: The Institutio Method in Practice: Gassendi’s Report of the Pascalian Experiment
pp. 149
Chapter Six: A Method of Hypotheses and Hypothetical Reasoning
pp. 189
Chapter Seven: Smallest Particles: From Ancient Atomist and Minima Theories to Minima Naturae and Physical Corpuscularianism
pp. 205
Chapter Eight: The Mechanical Philosophy
pp. 213
Chapter Nine: Ultimate Particles and Essential Features
pp. 247
Chapter Ten: Atomic Motion, Causal Role, and Internal Impetus
pp. 289
Chapter Eleven: Explanatory Uses of the Atomist Hypothesis
pp. 321
Chapter Twelve: Atomism, the Mechanical Philosophy, and Empirical Viability
pp. 341
Chapter Thirteen: Atomism and Scientific Method
pp. 367
Chapter Fourteen: Is There a Circle in Gassendi’s Reasoning?
pp. 383
Bibliography
pp. 411
General Index
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