When historiography met epistemology : : sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in French-speaking countries in the second half of the nineteenth century / / by Stefano Bordoni.
In When Historiography Met Epistemology , Stefano Bordoni shows the emergence of sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in French speaking countries in the second half of the nineteenth century. That process involved mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, and was deeply linked to...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of Modern Science
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (347 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: The Emergence of an Intellectual Stream
- Critical Analyses of Scientific Method
- Between Experimentalism and Mild Naturalism
- Different Attitudes Towards Reductionism
- Mathematics and Determinism
- Scientists and Philosophers on Determinism
- Naïve versus Sophisticated Meta-theoretical Frameworks
- Histories of Ancient Science and Mathematics
- From Theoretical Physics to Meta-theoretical Commitments
- Scientific Practice between Metaphysics and Experiments
- Conclusion
- Afterword: Disappearances and Questionable Reappearances
- References
- Index to Names.