TY - BOOK ID - 118229253 TI - The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great : philosophy and science AU - Prunea-Bretonnet, Tinca AU - Anstey, Peter R. AU - University of Oxford PY - 2022 SN - 9781802070255 1802070257 PB - Oxford University of Oxford Voltaire Foundation DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - German Academy of Sciences [Berlin] KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Germany KW - Enlightenment KW - Philosophy and science KW - Science and philosophy KW - Aufklärung KW - Eighteenth century KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - History KW - Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin KW - Königl. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften KW - K. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften KW - Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften KW - Academia Litterarum Regia Borussica KW - Academia Scientiarum Regia Borussica KW - Kurfürstlich Brandenburgische Sozietät der Wissenschaften KW - Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften KW - Learned institutions and societies KW - Enlightenment. KW - Philosophy and science. KW - Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. KW - 1700-1799 KW - Germany. KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118229253 AB - "This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the mid-1740s to the 1770s, and in so doing provides a robust new instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a historiography of philosophy at this important Enlightenment institution. The collection ranges from discussions of the roles of philosophy and natural philosophy in the formation of the reinvigorated Academy in the mid-1740s, to conceptions of the correct philosophical methodology to be deployed by the Academy. It provides the first ever study of the nature and arrangement of the new classes of the Academy, and a fresh appraisal of the Academy's methodological eclecticism. One recurring theme is the status of metaphysics: there are studies of both special metaphysics, including the study of the soul; general metaphysics, that is, the study of being in general; and foundational metaphysical principles and concepts, such as Maupertuis's Principle of least action, Euler's concept of space and Lambert's notion of an experimental metaphysics. The collection also takes the study of the Academy in new directions through focused studies of important figures whose writings deserve to be better understood, such as Jean Bernard Merian, Louis de Beausobre, Jean Henri Samuel Formey and Johann Georg Sulzer."-- ER -