Daniell, John Frederic (1790–1845), experimental philosopher and businessman

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. J. L. James
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Philosopher

Benjamin Franklin as experimental philosopher

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 1148-1153
Author(s):  
Samuel Devons
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Experimental Philosopher

scholarly journals Interview on Experimental Philosophy with Joshua Knobe

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Pendaran S. Roberts ◽  
Joshua Knobe ◽  
Pendaran Roberts ◽  
Joshua Knobe
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Knobe Effect ◽  
Experimental Philosopher ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaborations ◽  
Conversation Piece

This conversation piece contains an interview with Joshua Knobe. It provides a useful introduction to what experimental philosophy is and the interdisciplinary collaborations it encourages. Pendaran Roberts and Joshua Knobe collaboratively developed this conversation piece via email. Joshua Knobe is a renowned experimental philosopher, who works on a range of philosophical issues, including philosophy of mind, action and ethics. He is a professor in the Program in Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. He is most known for what is now called the ‘Knobe effect’.

The Mariner’s Sextant and the Royal Society

1978 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Heavenly Body ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Experimental Philosopher ◽  
Measuring Devices ◽  
Physical Principles

ONE would be hard pressed to name a device superior to the mariner’s sextant by which physical principles are better adapted to solve a relatively simple practical problem. The sextant, an instrument superbly elegant in its simplicity, designed merely to measure accurately the altitude of a heavenly body from a platform as unstable as the heaving deck of a ship at sea, is ideal for its purpose. The first part of this paper describes the principal altitude measuring devices employed during the Golden Age of Discoveries. It covers a period of about a quarter of a millennium from the time when Portuguese mariners under the sponsorship of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) first struck out to navigate the open Atlantic, to the time when Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the eminent experimental philosopher of the seventeenth century, first described, in 1666, a reflecting instrument for measuring altitudes at sea.

VIII. An account of a book entitul'd Vegetable Staticks: or an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables; being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation. also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymico-statical experiments; which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society, &c. By Stephen Hales, B. D. F. R. S. Rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex

1727 ◽  
Vol 34 (398) ◽  
pp. 264-291
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Experimental Philosopher ◽  
Mechanical Hand ◽  
History Of Vegetation ◽  
History Of

VIII. An account of a book entitul'd vegetable staticks: or an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables; being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation. also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymico-statical experiments; which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society, &c. By Stephen Hales, B. D. F. R. S. Rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex. The account by the Rev. John Theoph. Desaguliers, LL. D. R. S. S. As the antients us’d to say, that geometry and arithmetick are the wings of a mathematician; so a mechanical hand, and a mathematical head are the necessary qualifications of an experimental philosopher.

Sir Christopher Wren, P. R. S. (1632-1723)

1960 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Experimental Philosopher ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Artistic Performance

Christopher Wren was at the very centre of the group to which the Royal Society owes its origin. It was after his astronomy lectures at Gresham College in 1660 that the meetings took place at which the Society was created and it was to him that the composition of the pre-amble to the charter was entrusted. He participated regularly in the Society’s activities in the first three years of its existence and always maintained his interest in it. He was President in 1680-82. There exists no authoritative account of Wren’s scientific work: indeed, there is as yet no biography of him which is anything like definitive. In the absence of such a work the study of Wren is haunted by an enigma which may well seem more formidable than it really is. This enigma is the relationship of what are held to be his two quite distinct careers; his career as an experimental philosopher, in the course of which he made fairly substantial contributions in the fields of biology, astronomy and physics; and his career as an architect, in the course of which he reached a level of artistic performance unique in the England of his time and of European consequence. The question arises: were these two careers distinct in origin, developing from two sides of a personality or did Wren’s architecture develop naturally out of or alongside his scientific studies? For us today the problem is bedevilled by those distinctions between ‘scientific’ and ‘artistic’ which were erected in the course of the nineteenth century and which it is extremely misleading to attempt to apply in the seventeenth.

‘Following No Party But The Truth’: Petrus Van Musschenbroek’s Rhetorical Defence Of (Newtonian) Experimental Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-174
Author(s):  
Pieter Present
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Experimental Philosopher ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

The Dutch Republic played an important role in the dissemination of Newton’s philosophy. There, it found its earliest proponents, who were instrumental in the spread of Newton’s ideas on the Continent. One of these figures was Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692-1761), who took up professorships at the universities of Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden. In a letter to Newton written at the beginning of his academic career, van Musschenbroek explicitly stated that it was his aim to spread the ‘Newtonian philosophy’ in the university, and from there to the rest of Dutch society. In this article, I focus on van Musschenbroek’s activities in the context of his professorship at different universities in the Dutch Republic. I analyse the way van Musschenbroek presents Newton and his philosophy in his academic orations and the prefaces to the different editions of his textbook. I argue that van Musschenbroek implicitly uses a certain view on the institution of the university and its tasks as a leverage in his defence of ‘(Newtonian) experimental philosophy’ and his attack on the existing tradition of Cartesian philosophy in the university. I also show how van Musschenbroek was not consistent in presenting his philosophy as specifically ‘Newtonian’, and increasingly emphasised that he should not be seen as a ‘follower’ of Newton, but rather as an impartial ‘experimental philosopher’. This shift, however, can be seen as motivated by the same rhetorical strategy used by van Musschenbroek in his earlier defence of ‘Newtonian’ experimental philosophy.

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