Stamos Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6392-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 602 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stamos, David N.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Sources

1. Prologue
Entrée
Summaries
Discovering Poe
Poe’s House of Usher
Poe’s Poiesis

2. Poe’s Literary Theory
Entrée
The Problem
Pleasure, Plot, and Unity of Effect
Eureka as a “Prose Poem”

3. Poe’s Theology
Entrée
Poe’s Theology and the Problem of Evil
Artistic Sensitivity and Poe’s View of the World
The Argument from Beauty
The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Death
Beauty and Hope

4. Poe’s Intellectual Background
Entrée
Poe’s Formal Education
“Pinakidia”
The Conchologist’s First Book
“A on Science and Art”
The Bridgewater Treatises
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Poe’s Scientific Sources for Eureka
Poe’s Criteria of Truth
Was Eureka a Hoax?

5. The Scientific Anticipations of Eureka
Entrée
Rejection of Axioms as Intuitively True
Big Bang Cosmogony
Fine-Tuning of the Laws of Nature
Non-Existence of Laws of Nature Before the Big Bang
Olbers’ Paradox
Multiverse Theory
Space–Time Interdependence
Matter–Energy Equivalence
No Material Ether

6. Imagination in Philosophy and History of Science
Entrée
Philosophy of Science in Poe’s Time
Logical Positivism
Logical Empiricism
Karl Popper
Thomas Kuhn
The New Experimentalism
The Disunity of Science Movement
Inference to the Best Explanation
Epistemic Virtues and Values
Evolutionary Epistemology
Contextualist History of Science
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Mutation and Imagination, an Analogy

7. Poe’s Theory of Scientific Imagination
Entrée
Double Consciousness
Mesmeric Consciousness
Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets
Kepler, Champollion, and Humboldt
Leibniz, Newton, and Laplace
Poe’s “Double Dupin”
Against Deduction and Induction
The Poetic Intellect

8. Epilogue
Entrée
Unconscious Scientific Creativity
Comparative Biography and Psychology
Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Evolution
Adieu

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University in Toronto. He is the author of several books, including Darwin and the Nature of Species, also published by SUNY Press.