The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science

ISBN-13: 9781138661264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

John G McEvoy;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This study offers a critical survey of past and present interpretations of the Chemical Revolution designed to lend clarity and direction to the current ferment of views.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Philosophical and Historiographical Terrain; Chapter 1 Positivism, Whiggism and the Chemical Revolution; Chapter 2 Postpositivism and the Historiography of Science; Chapter 3 Postposotivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution; Chapter 4 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Changing Philosophical Images of Science; Chapter 5 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Science; Chapter 6 Postmodernist and Sociological Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution; Chapter 7 The Chemical Revolution as History;

O autorze

John G. McEvoy