E-Book, Englisch, Band 1283, 360 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Olson Scottish Philosophy and British Physics, 1740-1870
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7249-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1283, 360 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7249-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Frontmatter, pg. i
Acknowledgments, pg. v
Contents, pg. vii
Prologue, pg. 1
Chapter 1: The Integration of Moral Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Scottish Academia, pg. 11
Chapter 2: The Origins of Common Sense Philosophical Concern with the Nature of Science: Bacon and Newton Revisited in the Light of Hume, pg. 26
Chapter 3: Common Sense Concerns with the Nature of Mathematics, pg. 55
Chapter 4: A Change in Mood: Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, and the Acceptance of Hypothetical and Analogical Methods in Science, pg. 94
Chapter 5: Thomas Brown and William Hamilton: The Relativity of Scientific Knowledge and the Triumph of Simplicity and Analogy, pg. 125
Chapter 6: Common Sense Reflections in the Natural Philosophy of John Robison and John Playfair, pg. 157
Chapter 7: Common Sense Elements in Scientific Reviews: 1790-1840, pg. 169
Chapter 8: John Leslie and Henry Brougham: Model Common Sense Scientists of the First Generation, pg. 194
Chapter 9: Common Sense Concerns Once Removed: James D. Forbes and John James Waterston, pg. 225
Chapter 10: Sir John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy and the Common Sense Tradition, pg. 252
Chapter 11: The Methodological Writings of William John Macquorn Rankine, pg. 271
Chapter 12: Culmination of the Tradition: Metaphysics and Method in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell, pg. 287
Epilogue, pg. 323
Index, pg. 337
