TY - BOOK ID - 9849600 TI - Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French Enlightenment PY - 2002 SN - 0226720799 0226720780 PB - Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment KW - Science KW - Sensitivity (Personality trait) KW - History KW - 18th century. KW - Enlightenment. KW - Enlightenment -- France. KW - France. KW - History. KW - Science. KW - Science -- France -- History -- 18th century. KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Philosophy, Medical KW - Empiricism KW - Philosophy KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Humanities KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Sciences - General KW - Sensitivity (Personality trait). KW - Sensibility (Personality trait) KW - Sensitiveness (Personality trait) KW - Susceptibility (Personality trait) KW - Personality UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9849600 AB - Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a ""sentimental empiricism,"" natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion.Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjami ER -