Dying to know scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England /

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Autor Principal: Levine, George Lewis
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • The narrative of scientific epistemology
  • Dying to know Descartes
  • Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator
  • Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self
  • My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. Wallace
  • Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography
  • The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend
  • Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology
  • The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed
  • Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science
  • The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater.