Author:
John R. Wettersten
Volume Editor:
James A. Bell
Copyright Year:
2004
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James A. BELL: Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Analytical
Introduction: Whewell’s Image and Impact; Two Conflicting Tales
PART ONE: the building of Whewell’s image
1. Immediate Rejection
2. Embarrassed Silence
PART TWO: WHEWELL’S IMPACT EMERGING
3. Disturbing Recollections Fail to Pass Away
4. The 20th Century Sneaks a Worried Look at Old Judgments
PART THREE: THE IMAGE REINSTATED. THE REALITY COVERED OVER
5. The Return to Old Misconceptions
6. Quixotic Attempts to Revive Mill’s Program
7. The Reappraisal of Whewell’s Place in the History of the Philosophy of Science Begins
PART FOUR: Whewell reappraised today
8. An Overview: Whewell’s Philosophy in Retrospect
9. The Good that Whewell Can Still Do
References
COMMENTARIES
Michael SEGRE: Whewell’s Legacy and the Art of Argumentation
Joseph AGASSI: The Case-Study and Its Import: Wettersten on Whewell
Ron CURTIS: The Theological Deduction
Maurice A. FINOCCHIARO: Was Whewell an Inductivist?
Godfrey GUILLAUMIN J., William Whewell’s Idea of Historical Causation
William MARGOLIS: A Small Appreciation of William Whewell
REPLIES TO COMMENTARIES
John WETTERSTEN: Replies to Commentaries
Index
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
429 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004359246

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