Experimental philosophy and the birth of empirical science : Boyle, Locke, and Newton

Introduction : the historical sociology of scientific explanations

The break with the philosophical discourse on nature : the discovery of electrical conductivity

Explanation and experimentation transformed : Newton's studies of spectral colors

The public transaction of Newton's optical research

Remodeling human understanding : Locke's laboratory of the mind

Locke's doctrine of the faithful mind

Experimental philosophy : the gospel according to Boyle

Science as an institution of human understanding : conclusions