Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
- Marco Faini,
- Marco Sgarbi,
This volume offers a series of insights into the fascinating topic of errors and false opinions in early modern Europe. It explores the semantic richness of the category of ‘error’ in a time when such category becomes crucial to European thought and culture. During decades of increasing normativity in the social and religious sphere as well as in the epistemological status of disciplines, recognizing and correcting error becomes an imperative task whose importance can hardly be overestimated. The efforts at establishing religious, political, and scientific orthodoxy led philosophers, doctors, philologist, scientist, and theologians, to reconsider the very foundations of knowledge in the attempt to dispel errors. Spanning geographically from Italy to France, England, and Germany, the articles here gathered provide stimulating glimpses into one of the most fascinating, multifaceted, and controversial aspects of early modern culture.
- Keywords:
- Error,
- Opinions,
- Heresy,
- History of Science,
- History of Knowledge,
- Philology,
- Medicine,
- Experiment,
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4
- Series: Knowledge and its Histories
- Scientific Board
- Language: English
- Subjects: Philosophy
University at Buffalo, United States - ORCID: 0000-0003-3258-1308
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6346-8167
Marco Sgarbi is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is the editor of Philosophical Readings, a four-monthly on-line journal, and of the Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition and Knowledge and its Histories for Firenze University Press.
Giorgio Caravale
Error of the Heretic, Error of the Controversialist. Error and Deception in Sixteenth-Century Religious Polemics- CC BY 4.0 |
- © Author(s)
-
pp.17-26
Marco Sgarbi
Errors of Interpretation: Vincenzo Maggi and Sperone Speroni, Readers of Francesco Robortello- CC BY 4.0 |
- © Author(s)
-
pp.27-40
Paolo Cherchi
“Errori popolari:” How a Medical Notion Became an Aesthetic One- CC BY 4.0 |
- © Author(s)
-
pp.41-65
pp.67-86
pp.105-119
pp.121-134
- Publication Year: 2023
- Pages: 145
- eISBN: 979-12-215-0266-4
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2023 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2023
- Pages: 145
- ISBN: 979-12-215-0265-7
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2023 Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Authors
Marco Faini, Marco Sgarbi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
145
Publication Year
2023
Copyright Information
© 2023 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0265-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0266-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0267-1
Series Title
Knowledge and its Histories
Series ISSN
3035-5974
Series E-ISSN
3035-5923
News and Events
Export Citation
Suggested Books
