General Information

Language

English.

Published

Cham : Springer, 2017.

Physical Description

198 p. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Dongen, Jeroen van, 1974- (editor)

Paul. Herman, (editor)

Contents/Summary

Summary

This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed "epistemic virtues" such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives on questions, discourses, and practices shared across the disciplines, even at a time when the neo-Kantian distinction between sciences and humanities enjoyed its greatest authority. Scholars including historians of science and of the humanities, intellectual historians, virtue epistemologists, and philosophers of science will all find this book of particular interest and value.

Subjects

Subject

Epistemics.

Virtue epistemology.

Science > Philosophy.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Jeroen van Dongen, Herman Paul, editors.

Series

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 321 0068-0346

Content

Introduction: Epistemic virtues in the sciences /Jeroen van Dongen and Herman Paul -- Confidence, humility, and hubris in Victorian scientific naturalism / Ian James Kidd -- "Broken symmetry": physics, aesthetics, and moral virtue in nuclear age America / Jessica Wang -- Religious and scientific virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and persistence / Matthew Stanley -- The epistemic virtues of the virtuous theorist: on Albert Einstein and his autobiography / Jeroen van Dongen -- Scholarly vices: boundary work in nineteenth-century Orientalism / Christiaan Engberts and Herman Paul -- Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: virtue language in late nineteenth-century physics, chemistry, and history / Herman Paul -- Virtues of courage and virtues of restraint: Tyndall, Tait and the use of the imagination in late Victorian science / Léjon Saarloos -- The adventurer and the documentalist: science and virtue in interwar nature protection / Raf de Bont -- "The lonely form dies": how epistemic virtues connect Roman Jakobson's New Science of Language and his personality / Bart Karstens -- Johan Rudolph Thorbecke's revenge: objectivity and the rise of the Dutch Nation State / Ad Maas.

ISBN

9783319488929

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	100 DON		Reference	-

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