Science and the Shaping of Modernity

Science and the Shaping of Modernity

Essays in Honor of Stephen Gaukroger

Wolfe, Charles; Waldow, Anik

Springer International Publishing AG

01/2025

369

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9783031760365

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Descartes after Gaukroger.- Chapter 3. Abiding, Fruitful (and Never 'Vehement'): Forty Years of Historiographical Dialogue with Steve Gaukroger.- Chapter 4. In Praise of an Independent Thinker - Stephen Gaukroger's Methods, Concepts, and Command of Languages.- Chapter 5. Remarks on Philosophy and Friendship.- Chapter 6. Optimism.- Chapter 7. Gaukroger autonomy of phenomenal explanation.- Chapter 8. Religion and the Social Legitimation of Science.- Chapter 9. Science and Scepticism: Navigating Knowledge, Belief, and Faith.- Chapter 10. Some Reflections on Gaukroger's Descartes.- Chapter 11. Debt to Bacon: On Communicating Knowledge and Ignorance in the Discourse on the Method.- Chapter 12. Gaukroger's Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: A few Dilemmas of Descartes's Physics.- Chapter 13. Peering horizontally through microscopes: Stephen Gaukroger explains the middling world.- Chapter 14. Nero's Ingratitude: Spinoza and the Naturalisation of Sin.- Chapter 15. The Great Spinoza Controversy of the 1780s: the Role of Frans Hemsterhuis (1721-1790).- Chapter 16. The Philosophical Personae of Joseph Weber (1753-1831): Catholic Philosopher-Priest at the University of Dillingen.- Chapter 17. The History of the Humanities and the History of Science in the Early Natural History of the Kangaroo.- Chapter 18. The Life-Made World of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.- Chapter 19. Romanticism and Empiricism - or Romantic Empiricism.- Chapter 20. Georg Forster and Therese Huber's Adventure to New Holland.- Chapter 21. Sense, Sensibility, Sensitivity, or, Why was the 18th Century more Sentimental than the 17th Century?.- Chapter 22. A physiology of resurrection? Bonnet as reader of Malebranche.- Chapter 23. Mandeville on Medical Men.- Chapter 24. The Genre Of the Natural History Of Man Through Stephen Gaukroger's Lens. Intellectual Sentiments Within Stadial History: Giambattista Vico, The Encyclopedie, Adam Smith.- Chapter 25. Humean Chemistry: Chemical Philosophy and Philosophical Chemistry in David Hume and William Cullen.- Chapter 26. Where's Lucian? Failure and historical compromise in the History of Philosophy.- Chapter 27. Steven Gaukroger on philosophical failure.- Chapter 28. What Kind of Philosophy Might Survive the History of Its Failures? Gadamerian Reflections on Stephen Gaukroger's The Failures of Philosophy.- Chapter 29. On the New Nature and the Impact of Synthetic Philosophy on Cosmogenic Speculation.- Chapter 30. A Naturalist Philosopher.- Chapter 31. Stephen Gaukroger and the neutrality of historical epistemology.- Chapter 32. Geopraxis and Historical Materialism. For a Humanistic Environmentalism.- Chapter 33. The Mentor and Educator in the Persona of the Scholar.- Chapter 34. What I learned from Stephen.- Chapter 35. Orientation in Space, Thought and Life. Continuing some recent conversations with Stephen.- Chapter 36. A bibliography of Stephen Gaukroger's publications.
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early modern natural philosophy;Gaukroger;modern science;modernity;Stephen Gaukroger;history of Science;philosophy of science