Dongen, Jeroen van
Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
1. Introduction: Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
Jeroen Dongen, Herman Paul
2. Confidence, Humility, and Hubris in Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Ian James Kidd
3. “Broken Symmetry”: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America
Jessica Wang
4. Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Persistence
Matthew Stanley
5. The Epistemic Virtues of the Virtuous Theorist: On Albert Einstein and His Autobiography
Jeroen Dongen
6. Scholarly Vices: Boundary Work in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism
Christiaan Engberts, Herman Paul
7. Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History
Herman Paul
8. Virtues of Courage and Virtues of Restraint: Tyndall, Tait and the Use of the Imagination in Late Victorian Science
Léjon Saarloos
9. The Adventurer and the Documentalist: Science and Virtue in Interwar Nature Protection
Raf Bont
10. “The Lonely Form Dies”: How Epistemic Virtues Connect Roman Jakobson’s New Science of Language and His Personality
Bart Karstens
11. Johan Rudolph Thorbecke’s Revenge: Objectivity and the Rise of the Dutch Nation State
Ad Maas
Keywords: History, History of Science, Historiography and Method, Intellectual Studies, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of Chemistry
- Editor
- Dongen, Jeroen van
- Paul, Herman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Page amount
- 6 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319488936
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-48892-9