When historiography met epistemology : sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in French-speaking countries in the second half of the nineteenth century
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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
（History of modern science / Massimiliano Badino, Alexander Blum, Jürgen Renn, v. 2）
Brill, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-329) and index
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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 other processes that transformed the cultural and material landscape of Europe. In the literature, the emergence of the history and philosophy of science is chronologically associated with the turn of the twentieth century: the author points out that this meaningful starting point should be moved backwards. Since the 1860s, sophisticated histories of science and critical meta-theoretical remarks on scientific practice began to compete with naive historical reconstructions and dogmatic views on science.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: The Emergence of an Intellectual Stream 1
1 Critical Analyses of Scientific Method 28
2 Between Experimentalism and Mild Naturalism 56
3 Different Attitudes Towards Reductionism 85
4 Mathematics and Determinism 113
5 Scientists and Philosophers on Determinism 138
6 Naive versus Sophisticated Meta-theoretical Frameworks 164
7 Histories of Ancient Science and Mathematics 190
8 From Theoretical Physics to Meta-theoretical Commitments 218
9 Scientific Practice between Metaphysics and Experiments 245
Conclusion 273
Afterword: Disappearances and Questionable Reappearances 277
References 309
Index to Names 330
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