國立虎尾科技大學 |

Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities/ edited by Jeroen van Dongen, Herman Paul.
other author:	Dongen, Jeroen van.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	vi, 198 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Epistemics. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48893-6
ISBN:	9783319488936

Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities
Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities[electronic resource] /edited by Jeroen van Dongen, Herman Paul. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - vi, 198 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science,v.3210068-0346 ;. - Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ;v.295..

Introduction (Jeroen van Dongen) -- 1. Confidence, Humility, and Virtue in Nineteenth Century Philosophies (Ian James Kidd) -- 2. The Rise of Objectivity: Epistemic Virtues and Social Change in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands (Ad Maas) -- 3. The Scientific Imagination in Britain around 1900 (Lejon Saarloos) -- 4. The Documentalist and the Adventurer: Epistemic Virtues in Interwar Nature Protection (Raf de Bont) -- 5. Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Overcoming Obstacles (Matt Stanley) -- 6. 'Broken Symmetry': Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America (Jessica Wang) -- 7. Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Socialist and Scientific Virtues of Anton Pannekoek (Chaokang Tai) -- 8. The Portraits of Hermann von Holst: Character and Virtue in the Historical Discipline around 1900 (Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen) -- 9. Weber, Wohler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History (Herman Paul) -- 10. A Virtuous Theorist's Theoretical Virtues: Einstein on Physics versus Mathematics and Experience versus Unification (Jeroen van Dongen) -- 11. How Interactions between Humanities and Science Shed New Light on Shared Epistemic Virtues (Rens Bod)

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. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions as: What kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas? While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a 'po st-disciplinary' historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments. 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.

ISBN: 9783319488936

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-48893-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

575231
Epistemics.

LC Class. No.: Q175.32.V57 / E65 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 100

Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities
LDR:03955nam a2200325 a 4500 001 922407
003 DE-He213
005 20171207092851.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 190624s2017 gw s 0 eng d
020 $a 9783319488936 $q (electronic bk.)
020 $a 9783319488929 $q (paper)
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-319-48893-6 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-319-48893-6
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a Q175.32.V57 $b E65 2017
072 7 $a PDX $2 bicssc
072 7 $a SCI034000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 100 $2 23
090 $a Q175.32.V57 $b E64 2017
245 0 0 $a Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities $h [electronic resource] / $c edited by Jeroen van Dongen, Herman Paul.
260 $a Cham : $c 2017. $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Springer,
300 $a vi, 198 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
490 1 $a Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, $x 0068-0346 ; $v v.321
505 0 $a Introduction (Jeroen van Dongen) -- 1. Confidence, Humility, and Virtue in Nineteenth Century Philosophies (Ian James Kidd) -- 2. The Rise of Objectivity: Epistemic Virtues and Social Change in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands (Ad Maas) -- 3. The Scientific Imagination in Britain around 1900 (Lejon Saarloos) -- 4. The Documentalist and the Adventurer: Epistemic Virtues in Interwar Nature Protection (Raf de Bont) -- 5. Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Overcoming Obstacles (Matt Stanley) -- 6. 'Broken Symmetry': Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America (Jessica Wang) -- 7. Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Socialist and Scientific Virtues of Anton Pannekoek (Chaokang Tai) -- 8. The Portraits of Hermann von Holst: Character and Virtue in the Historical Discipline around 1900 (Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen) -- 9. Weber, Wohler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History (Herman Paul) -- 10. A Virtuous Theorist's Theoretical Virtues: Einstein on Physics versus Mathematics and Experience versus Unification (Jeroen van Dongen) -- 11. How Interactions between Humanities and Science Shed New Light on Shared Epistemic Virtues (Rens Bod)
520 $a 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. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions as: What kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas? While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a 'po st-disciplinary' historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments. 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.
650 0 $a Epistemics. $3 575231
650 0 $a Science $x Philosophy. $3 557504
650 1 4 $a History. $3 669538
650 2 4 $a History of Science. $3 671541
650 2 4 $a Historiography and Method. $3 1107273
650 2 4 $a Intellectual Studies. $3 1105218
650 2 4 $a History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. $3 782545
650 2 4 $a History of Chemistry. $3 1107522
700 1 $a Dongen, Jeroen van. $3 1197964
700 1 $a Paul, Herman. $3 1197965
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
830 0 $a Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ; $v v.295. $3 884127
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48893-6
950 $a History (Springer-41172)