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Dilemmas and Uncertainties: The Sciences at the Early Modern University

Dilemmas and Uncertainties: The Sciences at the Early Modern University

Lepri, Valentina
Kiss, Farkas Gábor

Hardcover

Series: Renaissance Mind, Book 4

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3119148695
ISBN13: 9783119148696
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 207
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The authors of this volume bring new insights to the intellectual history of knowledge and belief in sciences, and they do so by focusing on the presence of debates and multiple truths in university context. It has been observed that in the past two decades, scholars have come to value uncertainty as an important key to seventeenth-century Catholicism, and this statement could be easily extended to Protestant intellectual traditions, as well. After that earlier research had focused on skepticism and doubt in the early modern era for a long time, recent scholarship has come to understand the importance of multiple truths, and the practices of choosing between more or less probable options. Probabilism, choosing the more probable option seems to have been a wide-reaching and pervasive intellectual behavior that has been often overlooked. Multiple, diverse truths did not necessarily imply a skeptic attitude to scientific or theological questions: instead, they taught the reader, the student, to argue for or against, and to understand the importance of choosing between the options. Moreover, they maintained a space for another notion of central importance in early modern intellectual traditions: belief.

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