Science and the Shaping of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Stephen Gaukroger

Introduction
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Contents
About the Editors
Chapter 1: Descartes after Gaukroger
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Chapter 2: Abiding, Fruitful (and Never ‘Vehement’): Forty Years of Historiographical Dialogue with Steve Gaukroger
	2.1 Prologue
	2.2 Pioneering in Cambridge 1976–79, Buchdahl, Bachelard, (and Me): From Galileo to Descartes
	2.3 At the Turn of the Millennium: Peak Cartesian Studies: Natural Philosophy, Matter Theory, Vortices, Hydraulic Mechanics and Laws of Motion
	2.4 Easy Concurrence and Subtle Differences 1999–2023
	2.5 Vale
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Chapter 3: In Praise of an Independent Thinker: Stephen Gaukroger’s Methods, Concepts, and Command of Languages
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Chapter 4: Remarks on Philosophy and Friendship
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Chapter 5: Optimism
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Chapter 6: Gaukroger on the Autonomy of Phenomenal Explanation
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The Concept of Phenomenal Explanation
	6.3 An Illustration of Phenomenal Explanation: Boyle on the Spring of the Air
	6.4 Historiographical Placement
	6.5 The Deployment of the Thesis in Gaukroger’s Writings
	6.6 Assessment
	6.7 Conclusion
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Chapter 7: Religion and the Social Legitimation of Science
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Chapter 8: Science and Scepticism: Navigating Knowledge, Belief, and Faith
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Carving Out Domains of Knowledge
	8.3 Sceptical Arguments
	8.4 Intellectual Humility
	8.5 Conclusion
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Chapter 9: Some Reflections on Gaukroger’s Descartes
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Chapter 10: In the Spirit of Bacon: Descartes on Communicating Knowledge and Ignorance in the Discourse on the Method
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Chapter 11: Gaukroger’s Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy: A Few Dilemmas of Descartes’s Physics
	11.1 First Dilemma: What Is Descartes’s Physics?
	11.2 Second Dilemma: Do Metaphysical Principles Work in Physics?
	11.3 Third Dilemma: Is It a Physics of Particular Bodies?
	11.4 Fourth Dilemma: The Treatise on Man
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Chapter 12: Peering Horizontally Through the Microscope: Stephen Gaukroger Explains the Middling World
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 Vertical and Horizontal Explanations
	12.3 The Middling World
	12.4 Conclusion: Neither Up nor Down
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Chapter 13: Nero’s Ingratitude: Spinoza and the Naturalisation of Sin
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Chapter 14: The Great Spinoza Controversy of the 1780s: The Role of Frans Hemsterhuis (1721–1790)
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Chapter 15: The Philosophical Personae of Joseph Weber (1753–1831): Catholic Philosopher-Priest at the University of Dillingen
	15.1 Introduction
		15.1.1 The Case of Joseph Weber
		15.1.2 From Jesuit Scholasticism to Introspective Philosophy
		15.1.3 Weber the Kantian
		15.1.4 Kant and Schelling
		15.1.5 Physics
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Chapter 16: The History of the Humanities and the History of Science in the Early Natural History of the Kangaroo
	16.1 Introduction
	16.2 A Taxonomic Puzzle
	16.3 Camper on Natural History and the Arts
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Chapter 17: The Life-Made World of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Chapter 18: Romanticism and Empiricism: Or Romantic Empiricism
	18.1 The Failures of Philosophy
	18.2 Romantic Empiricism
	18.3 Conclusion: Beyond Failures
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Chapter 19: Georg Forster and Therese Huber’s Adventures on a Journey to New Holland
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Chapter 20: Sense, Sensibility, Sensitivity, or, Why Was the Eighteenth Century More Sentimental Than the Seventeenth Century?
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Chapter 21: Physiologizing the Resurrection: Bonnet as Reader of Malebranche
	21.1 Montesquieu, the Oyster and the Huron
	21.2 The Malebranchist Physiologisation of the Propagation of Original Sin
	21.3 The Universal ‘Physics of Resurrection’ in Palingenesis: An Extension-Radicalisation of Preformationism
	21.4 The Newtons and Leibnizes of Apes and Elephants, the Perraults and Vaubans of Beavers
	21.5 Conclusion
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Chapter 22: Mandeville on Medical Men
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Chapter 23: The Genre of Natural History of Man Through Stephen Gaukroger’s Lens: Intellectual Sentiments Within Stadial History: Giambattista Vico, the Encyclopédie, Adam Smith
	23.1 Introduction
	23.2 Curiosity in the Encyclopédie’s Accounts of Stadial History: Between Utility and Pleasure
	23.3 Giambatistta Vico: The Hybrid Status of Curiosity in Jurisprudence and History
	23.4 Giambattista Vico and Adam Smith on Curiosity Through Successive Historical Stages
	23.5 Giambattista Vico on Curiosity and the Authority of Myths
	23.6 Conclusion
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Chapter 24: The Limits of the Mechanical and the Primacy of the Phenomenal: The Case of William Cullen and David Hume
	24.1 Introduction
	24.2 The Primacy of the Phenomenal
	24.3 Horizontal Explanatory Strategies in Cullen and Hume
	24.4 Conclusion
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Chapter 25: Where’s Lucian? Failure and Historical Compromise in the History of Philosophy
	25.1 Historicity and Genealogy
	25.2 Lucian and Novelty
	25.3 Propositional Certainty and Satire
	25.4 The Entailed Liar
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Chapter 26: Stephen Gaukroger on Philosophical Failure
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Chapter 27: What Kind of Philosophy Might Survive the History of Its Failures? Gadamerian Reflections on Stephen Gaukroger’s The Failures of Philosophy
	27.1 Philosophy at Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s
	27.2 Can Failures Within the History of Philosophy Be Redeemed?
	27.3 Plato: Another Look
	27.4 What, Exactly, Is the History of Philosophy About?
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Chapter 28: On the New Nature and the Impact of Synthetic Philosophy on Cosmogenic Speculation
	28.1 Introduction
	28.2 Huxley as Synthetic Philosopher
	28.3 Peirce
	28.4 Coda
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Chapter 29: A Naturalist Philosopher
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Chapter 30: Stephen Gaukroger and the Neutrality of Historical Epistemology
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Chapter 31: Geopraxis and Historical Materialism: For a Humanistic Environmentalism
	31.1 Post-epistemology
	31.2 Rosa Luxemburg’s Empathic Materialism
	31.3 From Classical to Ecological Materialism
	31.4 The Gramscian Moment: Toward Praxeological Materialism
	31.5 After the End
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Chapter 32: The Mentor and Educator in the Persona of the Scholar
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Chapter 33: Intellectual History, Philosophy, Literature: What I Learned from Stephen Gaukroger
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Chapter 34: Orientation in Space, Thought and Life: Continuing Some Recent Conversations with Stephen
Chapter 35: List of Publications by Stephen Gaukroger