Unit:
Department of History and Philosophy of ScienceLibrary of the School of Science
Author:
Asimakopoulou Efstathia
Dissertation committee:
Γκότσης Γεώργιος, Καθηγητής (επιβλέπων) , Τμ. Ι.Φ.Ε., Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Τύμπας Αριστοτέλης, Καθηγητής (μέλος της τριμελούς επιτροπής), Τμ. Ι.Φ.Ε., Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Μέριανος Γεράσιμος, Κύριος Ερευνητής (μέλος της τριμελούς επιτροπής), Ε.Ι.Ε/Ι.Ι.Ε.
Αραμπατζής Θεόδωρος, Καθηγητής, Τμ. Ι.Φ.Ε., Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Μαντζαβίνος Χρυσόστομος, Καθηγητής, Τμ. Ι.Φ.Ε., Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Πολυκανδριώτη Ουρανία, Διευθύντρια Ερευνών, Ε.Ι.Ε.
Διαλέτη Ανδρονίκη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Διευθύντρια Τομέα Ιστορίας, Ι.Α.Κ.Α., Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Original Title:
Δαιμονολογία: Ο χαμένος κρίκος της Επιστημονικής Επανάστασης με το Κυνήγι Μαγισσών; Μια συγκριτική μελέτη σχετικά με τις φιλοσοφικές και δαιμονολογικές θέσεις του εμπειριστή Joseph Glanvill
Translated title:
Demonology: the lost link between scientific revolution abd witch hunt? A comparative study on the philosophical and demonological positions of Joseph Glanvill
Summary:
This thesis proposes an interdisciplinary and multispectral study to find and identify the links between the English educated naturalistic demonology, the multifactorial phenomenon of witch-hunting (as an important part of European history), and the emergence of empirical philosophy in early modern England. As such, the multifaceted role of persecutions in the connections between demonological treatises and the epistemological proposal of the Baconian experimental method cannot be ignored in any way. The lack of recognition of the extension of these theoretical and practical interactions as contributing to the witch-hunt, in the context of the disciplinary Protestant state, was the question, that the thesis attempted to answer. In addition, the dissertation’s hypothesis, which claims that a systematic and systemic demonic bewitchment of the world preceded the elaboration of the mechanistic modernity inputs a fuller understanding of the paradoxical to modern eye connections between complex intellectual constructs and practices that supported in a decisive way to the transition to the modern norms and the modern subject with both positive and negative effects. Joseph Glanvill was not a peculiar exception; by virtue of his position and public relations, he was an enthusiastic proponent of the Baconian method and a strong representative apologist for the Royal Society and the English monarchy’s aspirations in the period of Restoration England.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
scientific revolution, witch hunt, interdisciplinary approach, demonology, naturalism, epistemology, feminist, Baconian inductive method, English empiricism, History of Ideas, Joseph Glanvill, Environmental history
Number of references:
560
