When Historiography Met Epistemology

Sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in French-speaking countries in the second half of the nineteenth century

Stefano Bordoni (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31522-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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 naïve historical reconstructions and dogmatic views on science.

Stefano Bordoni, Ph.D. (2007), Pisa University, is Lecturer in Mathematics at Bologna University, and lecturer in Philosophy of Science at Urbino University. He has published several books and many articles on the history of science, and on the history of physics.

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 Naïve 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

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	History of Modern Science ; 2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	685 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-31522-5 / 9004315225
ISBN-13	978-90-04-31522-8 / 9789004315228
Zustand	Neuware