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A collection of essays from some of the world's leading intellectual historians, representing an international spectrum of research into the history of philosophy, intellect, science and music.
This collection of essays addresses, in specific historical ways and from particular disciplinary standpoints, the problem of knowledge and what used to be called the classification of the sciences. What is, or what passes for, knowledge? What are its divisions, and how should they be related? Who possesses this knowledge, and to what uses has it been put? How is it transmitted, and how can its history be understood and written? Ranging across the epistemological barrier formed by the revolution of modern science, these contributions inquire into the changing disciplinary patterns of the tumultuous times between the renaissance and the enlightenment, that saw the fragmentation of old ideals and the creation of European modernity.
Contributors: Donald R. Kelley, Ann Blair, Paul Nelles, Constance Blackwell, Ulrich Schneider, Martin Mulsow, J.B. Schneewind, Donald Verene, Peter Miller, Ann Moyers, Michael Seidler, Anthony Pagden, Paula Findlen, Anthony Grafton, Heikki Mikkeli, Nicholas Jardine, Londa Schiebinger.
This collection of essays addresses, in specific historical ways and from particular disciplinary standpoints, the problem of knowledge and what used to be called the classification of the sciences. What is, or what passes for, knowledge? What are its divisions, and how should they be related? Who possesses this knowledge, and to what uses has it been put? How is it transmitted, and how can its history be understood and written? Ranging across the epistemological barrier formed by the revolution of modern science, these contributions inquire into the changing disciplinary patterns of the tumultuous times between the renaissance and the enlightenment, that saw the fragmentation of old ideals and the creation of European modernity.
Contributors: Donald R. Kelley, Ann Blair, Paul Nelles, Constance Blackwell, Ulrich Schneider, Martin Mulsow, J.B. Schneewind, Donald Verene, Peter Miller, Ann Moyers, Michael Seidler, Anthony Pagden, Paula Findlen, Anthony Grafton, Heikki Mikkeli, Nicholas Jardine, Londa Schiebinger.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 350
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
06 November 1997
Trim Size: 22.80 X 15.20 in
ISBN: 9781878822857
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SCIENCE / History, History of science
Introduction
Part I. The Problem of Knowledge
The Problem of Knowledge and the Concept of Discipline - Donald R. Kelley
Bodin, Montaigne, and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries - Ann Blaire
The Library as an Instrument of Discovery: Gabriel Naudé and the Uses of History - Paul Nelles
Part II. Philosophy and History
Thales Philosophus: The Beginning of Philosophy as a Discipline - Constance Blackwell
Eclecticism and the History of Philosophy - Ulrich Schneider
Gundling vs. Buddeus: Competing Models of the History of Philosophy - Martin Mulsow
No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy - J.B. Schneewind
Vico and the Barbarism of Reflection - Donald Philip Verene
Part III. Human Sciences
An Antiquary between Philology and History: Peiresc and the Samaritans - Peter Miller
Musical Scholarship in Italy at the End of the Renaissance, 1500-1650: From Veritas to Verisimilitude - Ann Moyer
Natural Law and History: Pufendorf's Philosophical Historiography - Michael Seidler
Eighteenth-Century Anthropology and the "History of Mankind" - Anthony Pagden
Part IV. Natural Sciences
Francis Bacon and the Reform of Natural History in the Seventeenth Century - Paula Findlen
From Apotheosis to Analysis: Some Late Renaissance Histories of Classical Astronomy - Anthony Grafton
Legitimizing a Discipline: James Mackenzie's History of Health (1758) - Heikki Mikkeli
The Mantle of Miller and the Ghost of Goethe: Interactions between the Sciences and Their Histories - Nicholas Jardine
Gender in early Modern Science - Londa Schiebinger
Index
Part I. The Problem of Knowledge
The Problem of Knowledge and the Concept of Discipline - Donald R. Kelley
Bodin, Montaigne, and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries - Ann Blaire
The Library as an Instrument of Discovery: Gabriel Naudé and the Uses of History - Paul Nelles
Part II. Philosophy and History
Thales Philosophus: The Beginning of Philosophy as a Discipline - Constance Blackwell
Eclecticism and the History of Philosophy - Ulrich Schneider
Gundling vs. Buddeus: Competing Models of the History of Philosophy - Martin Mulsow
No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy - J.B. Schneewind
Vico and the Barbarism of Reflection - Donald Philip Verene
Part III. Human Sciences
An Antiquary between Philology and History: Peiresc and the Samaritans - Peter Miller
Musical Scholarship in Italy at the End of the Renaissance, 1500-1650: From Veritas to Verisimilitude - Ann Moyer
Natural Law and History: Pufendorf's Philosophical Historiography - Michael Seidler
Eighteenth-Century Anthropology and the "History of Mankind" - Anthony Pagden
Part IV. Natural Sciences
Francis Bacon and the Reform of Natural History in the Seventeenth Century - Paula Findlen
From Apotheosis to Analysis: Some Late Renaissance Histories of Classical Astronomy - Anthony Grafton
Legitimizing a Discipline: James Mackenzie's History of Health (1758) - Heikki Mikkeli
The Mantle of Miller and the Ghost of Goethe: Interactions between the Sciences and Their Histories - Nicholas Jardine
Gender in early Modern Science - Londa Schiebinger
Index