William Whewell, a composite portrait
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William Whewell, a composite portrait
Clarendon Press, 1991
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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Description
William Whewell was a giant of Victorian intellectual culture. His influence, whether recognized or forgotten, is palpable in areas as diverse as moral philosophy, mineralogy, architecture, the politics of education, physics, engineering, and theology. Recent studies of the place of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain have repeatedly indicated the significance of Whewell's sweeping and critical proposals for a reformed account of scientific knowledge and
moral values.
However, until now there has been no detailed study of the context and impact of his project. This collection of essays by recognized authorities in the fields of history, history of science, and philosophy thus represents the first attempt to do justice to a magisterial nineteenth-century intellectual. More generally, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual life and its aftermath.
Table of Contents
- Harvey W. Becher: William Whewell's Odyssey: From Mathematics to Moral Philosophy
- Menachem Fisch: A Philosopher's Coming of Age: A Study in Erotetic Intellectual History
- Geoffrey N. Cantor: Between Rationalism and Romanticism: Whewell's Historiography of the Inductive Sciences
- Michael Ruse: William Whewell, Omniscientist
- Perry Williams: Passing on the Torch: Whewell's Philosophy and the Principles of English University Education
- John Brooke: Indications of a Creator: Whewell as Apologist and Priest
- Richard R. Yeo: William Whewell's Philosophy of Knowledge and its Reception
- Simon Shaffer: The History and Geography of the Intellectual World: Whewell's Politics of Language
- David B. Wilson: Convergence: Metaphysical Pleasure versus Physical Constraint
- M. J. S. Hodge: The History of the Earth, Life, and Man: Whewell and Palaetiological Science
- Menachem Fisch: Antithetical Knowledge
- Gerd Buchdahl: Deductivist versus Inductivist Approaches in the Philosophy of Science as Illustrated by some Controversies between Whewell and Mill
- John Wettersten: Whewell's Problematic Heritage
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