Epistemic virtues in the sciences and the humanities. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeroen van Dongen, Herman Paul, editors.
• Editors: Dongen, Jeroen van; Paul, Herman
• Contents: 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 (Léjon 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, Wöhler, 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).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (177 pages)
• Subjects: 100; History; Epistemics; Virtue epistemology; Science -- Philosophy; Historiography; PHILOSOPHY -- Essays; PHILOSOPHY -- Reference; Science -- Philosophy; Epistemics; Virtue epistemology; History -- Historiography; Science -- History; Science -- Physics; Science -- Chemistry -- General; Historiography; History of ideas; History of science; Chemistry; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319488936; 3319488937
• Related ISBNs: 9783319488929; 3319488929
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 30, 2018).
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