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Wolfe, Charles T.

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    Title/Author: Science and the shaping of modernity/ edited by Charles Wolfe, Anik Waldow.
    Reminder of title: essays in honor of Stephen Gaukroger /
    other author: Wolfe, Charles T.
    Published: Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
    Description: xv, 355 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: 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 Encyclopédie, 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.
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    Subject: Philosophy and science. -
    Online resource: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76037-2
    ISBN: 9783031760372
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