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When historiography met epistemology : sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in French-speaking countries in the second half of the nineteenth century /

In When Historiography Met Epistemology, Stefano Bordoni shows the emergence of sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in France after mid-nineteenth century. Since the 1860s, historical-critical reconstructions of scientific practice began to compete with naïve scientism.--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bordoni, Stefano, 1989- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:History of science and medicine library. History of modern science ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Critical Analyses of Scientific Method
  • 2. Between Experimentalism and Mild Naturalism
  • 3. Different Attitudes Towards Reductionism
  • 4. Mathematics and Determinism
  • 5. Scientists and Philosophers on Determinism
  • 6. Naive versus Sophisticated Meta-theoretical Frameworks
  • 7. Histories of Ancient Science and Mathematics
  • 8. From Theoretical Physics to Meta-theoretical Commitments
  • 9. Scientific Practice between Metaphysics and Experiments.