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... Empire: AD 1656-1668 . 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. ____. [1684] 1992 . Abrégé de la Philosophie de Gassendi . 2d ed. 7 vols. Lyon: Anisson, Posuel et Rigaud. Bloch, Olivier. 1971 . La philosophie de Gassendi: Nominalisme, matérialisme, et métaphysique . La Haye: Martinus...

... all knowledge to sensation:for sensist philosophers there is no need to have recourse to the intellect or to any faculty other than sense. The classic text of sensism is Condillac’s Traité des sensations ([1754] 1803–13), though Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi, for example, were also sensists...

... Francioni and Sergio Romagnoli, 1 : lxxxi -cxlvi. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri. Fullbrook, Edward, ed. 2003 . The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement—the First 600 Days . London: Routledge. Gassendi, Pierre. 1660 . Institutio Logica; et Philosophiæ Epicurei Sintagma . London...

... Gassendi also returned to Aristotle’s logic in his late work. Aristotle, Gassendi writes, discovered and refined the art of the syllogism, the “heart and muscle of all reasoning” (quoted in Howard J. Jones, Pierre Gassendi’s tnstitutio Logica (1658), Assen, The Netherlands, 198 1, xlix-1). 23...

... birthday Locke was either a student or practitioner of medicine. 14. Maurice Cranston (1957) observes that while in France Locke befriended François Bernier, a Montpellier physician, who had just published an Abregé de la Philosophie de Gassendi. “Strange to say, all of Locke’s references to him...

... Julien Offroy de La Met- trie to argue that a human being was no more than a “thinking machine.” Earlier, and following Pierre Gassendi, Mandeville had argued in a sim- ilar vein that a person’s “moral anatomy” should be based on his or her physiology.9 Although much less outspokenly...

... sentiment. He steers away from Spinoza and more toward Hobbes, Gassendi, and Bayle. In the last thinker he highlights the convergence of Augustinian and Epicurean currents and sees these sustained by Hume, among others. Hume’s personal views remain a subject of debate, but he was clearly anti-clerical...

..., is irreligion. Robert- son is inclined to the view that secularism was afoot, but did not preclude religious sentiment. He steers away from Spinoza and more toward Hobbes, Gassendi, and Bayle. In the last thinker he highlights the convergence of Augustinian and Epicurean currents and sees these sustained...

..., given the role of Bayle and Mandeville, is irreligion. Robert- son is inclined to the view that secularism was afoot, but did not preclude religious sentiment. He steers away from Spinoza and more toward Hobbes, Gassendi, and Bayle. In the last thinker he highlights the convergence of Augustinian...

..., given the role of Bayle and Mandeville, is irreligion. Robert- son is inclined to the view that secularism was afoot, but did not preclude religious sentiment. He steers away from Spinoza and more toward Hobbes, Gassendi, and Bayle. In the last thinker he highlights the convergence of Augustinian...

... sentiment. He steers away from Spinoza and more toward Hobbes, Gassendi, and Bayle. In the last thinker he highlights the convergence of Augustinian and Epicurean currents and sees these sustained by Hume, among others. Hume’s personal views remain a subject of debate, but he was clearly anti-clerical...

..., given the role of Bayle and Mandeville, is irreligion. Robert- son is inclined to the view that secularism was afoot, but did not preclude religious sentiment. He steers away from Spinoza and more toward Hobbes, Gassendi, and Bayle. In the last thinker he highlights the convergence of Augustinian...

... and mechanics, he had the oeuvre of Francis Bacon, Galileo, Christian Huygens, Robert Hooke, Pierre Gassendi, Newton, Colin Maclaurin, and John Keill. On chemistry he had Pierre-Joseph Macquer and Joseph Priestley, and on natural history the works of Marcello Malpighi, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Carl Linnaeus...

... of mathematics at Amsterdam, Petty gained a letter of introduc- tion to Thomas Hobbes, himself in self-imposed exile from the Civil War, resident in Paris. Through Hobbes, Petty met other leading contemporary thinkers who were then living in Paris: Renk Descartes, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi...

... a revival and extension of Stoic teaching, with continuity through the Middle Ages, the channels being the study of Roman law and the Christian theologians, especially Thomas Aquinas, and later Hugo Grotius, Pierre Gassendi, Hobbes, Samuel von Pufendorf, and Locke. Ashley found a great...

... to the mechanical 9. For a further introduction to Galen, see Brain 1986. 528 History of Political Economy 32:3 (2000) systems of René Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton that were sweeping science in the 1600s. For the purposes of thisarticle, Descartesprovidesthe best entry...