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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2016  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW: CONFLICTING VALUES OF INQUIRY. IDEOLOGIES OF EPISTEMOLOGY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (ED. TAMÁS DEMETER, KATHRYN MURPHY AND CLAUS ZITTEL).

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  Abstract:  What are the standards for natural philosophical inquiry? To this question Early Modern philosophers came with different particular answers, with different ideologies of knowledge that centre around values such as usefulness or moral goodness. The challenges that early modern philosopher had to deal with were less the discovery of new facts and theories but the creation of the standards and values according to which his endeavours represent genuine inquiries into nature. Acknowledging the important social, politic, economic, etc. background of inquiry, insisted upon in the last 30 years, the present volume propose to “turn back to questions of the epistemic content itself” and analyse the epistemic values involved in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century scientific inquiry.  
         
     
         
         
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