Understanding Nature

I. Introduction

1. Comparative Epistemology

2. Antecedents: Comparative Epistemology as an Outcome

II. Animal Epistemology

3. What is an Animal? A Comparative Epistemology of Animals

4. What is a Whale? Moby-Dick, Marine Science and the Sublime

5. What is a Dog? Animal Experiments and Animal Novels

6. The Birth of a Research Animal

III. Plants, Landscapes and Environments

7. Aquaphobia, Tulipmania, Biophilia: A Moral Geography of the Dutch Landscape

8. Taming Microbes: Ibsen's Dr. Stockmann as a Contemporary of Pasteur and Koch

9. Pea Stories. Why was Mendel's Research Ignored in 1866 and Rediscovered in 1900?

10. Jules Verne's Oeuvre: A Literary Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology

IV. Conclusion

11. Epistemological Exercises: Towards a Typology of Knowledge Forms

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Keywords: PHILOSOPHY / General PHI000000