Papers presented at AAHPSSS,

Melbourne, July 2008

PANEL ON RETHINKING EMPIRICISM: INSTRUMENTS, MINDS, AND OBSERVATIONS

Ofer Gal

The Wig and the Telescope: Radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke

 

Alan Salter

The midwife, the shepherd, the keeper and the butcher:

practice and meaning in Harvey’s way of inquiry

 

Charles Wolfe

Empiricism contra experiment, in early modern medical thought

Anik Waldow

Bacon and Hume - two advocates of a new concept of scientific knowledge