{"title":"The Proleptic Principles of Samuel Parker","authors":"Mogens Lærke","doi":"10.1163/15733823-20251345","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The prolific English divine Samuel Parker (1640–1688) is best known for his works on theology and politics and for his blistering attacks on non-conformity, but was also an early member of the Royal Society who wrote extensively on natural philosophy and theology. My aim in this paper is to highlight a unifying element in this diverse corpus. First, I show how Parker promoted the epistemology and experimental methods of the nascent Royal Society in several early works, where he adopted a weak dispositional nativism rooted in an Epicurean theory of knowledge and mind not unlike the theory advanced by Gassendi. Secondly, I show how, in later polemics against non-conformism and puritanism, Parker repurposed this weak dispositional nativism for his theological and political polemics.</p>","PeriodicalId":49081,"journal":{"name":"Early Science and Medicine","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Early Science and Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20251345","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The prolific English divine Samuel Parker (1640–1688) is best known for his works on theology and politics and for his blistering attacks on non-conformity, but was also an early member of the Royal Society who wrote extensively on natural philosophy and theology. My aim in this paper is to highlight a unifying element in this diverse corpus. First, I show how Parker promoted the epistemology and experimental methods of the nascent Royal Society in several early works, where he adopted a weak dispositional nativism rooted in an Epicurean theory of knowledge and mind not unlike the theory advanced by Gassendi. Secondly, I show how, in later polemics against non-conformism and puritanism, Parker repurposed this weak dispositional nativism for his theological and political polemics.
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Early Science and Medicine (ESM) is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the history of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the end of the eighteenth century. The need to treat in a single journal all aspects of scientific activity and thought to the eighteenth century is due to two factors: to the continued importance of ancient sources throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and to the comparably low degree of specialization and the high degree of disciplinary interdependence characterizing the period before the professionalization of science.
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