The contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature in the 17

Empiricisms is about the value of experience and experiments. Why do we esteem them and what is their contribution to knowledge? The work is unique in the detai

This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the

Common sense philosophy was one of eighteenth-century Scotland's most original intellectual products. It developed as a viable alternative to modern philosophic

The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the l