This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements – epistemological, philosophical, m

This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements - epistemological, philosophical, mat

How new thinking about history, evidence, and scientific authority depended on undermining the authority of Aristotelianism. “The belief that Aristotle’s ph

Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science and his works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identit