What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?: Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences

Introduction (Siegfried BODENMANN & Anne-Lise REY).- Part I. The Plurality of Empiricisms.- Chapter 1. Four Methods of Empirical Inquiry in the Aftermath of Newton's Challenge (Eric SCHLIESSER).- Chapter 2. Fictitious Empiricism, Material Experiments (Marc RATCLIFF).- Part II. Newtonianism and non-Newtonianism empiricisms.- Chapter 3. Experimentum crucis. Newton's Empiricism at the Crossroads (Philippe HAMOU).- Chapter 4. (The Experiments of Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (Anne-Lise REY).- Chapter 5. Empiricism as a Rhetoric of Legitimation (Siegfried BODENMANN).- Part III. Empiricism and Rationality.- Chapter 6. Philosophical and Scientific Empiricism in the 18th Century (Catherine WILSON).- Chapter 7. Buffon's Natural History (Thierry HOQUET).- Chapter 8. What does it mean to be an Empiricist in Medicine? Baglivi's De praxi medica (1696) (Raphaële ANDRAULT).- Chapter 9. Empiricism and Certainty in Science (André CHARRAK).- Part IV. Reevaluation of the Label 'Empiricism'.- Chapter 10. Was Early Eighteenth-Century Chemistry an Empirical Science? (Bernard JOLY).- Chapter 11. Conducting Observations and Tests (Christian LEDUC).- Chapter 12. From Locke to Materialism (Charles T. WOLFE).