Scottish Philosophy and British Physics, 1740-1870 : : A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style /

Scottish Philosophy and British Physics, 1740-1870 : : A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style / / Richard S. Olson.

Historians of science have long been intrigued by the impact of disparate cultural styles on the science of a given country and time period. Richard Olson's book is a case study in the interaction between philosophy and science as well as an examination of a particular scientific movement.The a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Olson, Richard S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1975
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1283
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • PART I. The Growth of a Common Sense Philosophy of Science
  • Chapter 1: The Integration of Moral Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Scottish Academia
  • Chapter 2: The Origins of Common Sense Philosophical Concern with the Nature of Science: Bacon and Newton Revisited in the Light of Hume
  • Chapter 3: Common Sense Concerns with the Nature of Mathematics
  • Chapter 4: A Change in Mood: Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, and the Acceptance of Hypothetical and Analogical Methods in Science
  • Chapter 5: Thomas Brown and William Hamilton: The Relativity of Scientific Knowledge and the Triumph of Simplicity and Analogy
  • PART II. The Influence of Common Sense Ideas on the Exact Sciences in Britain
  • Chapter 6: Common Sense Reflections in the Natural Philosophy of John Robison and John Playfair
  • Chapter 7: Common Sense Elements in Scientific Reviews: 1790-1840
  • Chapter 8: John Leslie and Henry Brougham: Model Common Sense Scientists of the First Generation
  • Chapter 9: Common Sense Concerns Once Removed: James D. Forbes and John James Waterston
  • Chapter 10: Sir John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy and the Common Sense Tradition
  • Chapter 11: The Methodological Writings of William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Chapter 12: Culmination of the Tradition: Metaphysics and Method in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell
  • Epilogue
  • Index

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