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  • Chapter 7 - Truth, Science and Re-enchantment

  • from Part II - Beyond ‘Science and Religion’
  • Edited by Peter Harrison, University of Queensland, John Milbank, University of Nottingham
  • Book:
    After Science and Religion
    Published online:
    05 May 2022
    Print publication:
    19 May 2022, pp 171-200

  • Summary

    This chapter considers one of the major alternatives to reductionist, mechanistic philosophy in the seventeenth century, focusing upon three key English figures: Herbert of Cherbury, Robert Greville, and Anne Conway. While these thinkers have typically been relegated to the margins of the history of philosophy and science, they nonetheless represent a significant, if largely eclipsed tradition, and one that shows how, during this period, ‘disenchanted’ understandings of nature were not the sole option, and how they could co-exist with scientific conceptions of nature. Accordingly, these figures exemplify ways of being modern and scientific without abandoning an ‘enchanted’ view of the natural world.

  • 10 - Conforming

  • Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Aspects of Truth
    Published online:
    06 October 2020
    Print publication:
    22 October 2020, pp 256-281

  • Summary

    the claim that the possibility of truth involves elusive ontological bonds between known things and the knowing subject is explored through a reading of three Seventeenth Century English Platonists: Edward Herbert, Robert Greville and Anne Conway.