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Author:   Cristina Chimisso
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138210394

ISBN 10:   1138210390
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction and biographical notes on Hélène Metzger; Part I: Themes in Metzger’s writings; 1: Anachronism and scientific concepts; 2: The study of science in the making; 3: Emotions, habits and sympathy; Part II: The role of other disciplines in Metzger’s historiography; 4: Historical synthesis and the shape of history of science; 5: History of science and philosophy; Chapter 6: History of science, ethnology and religion; Part III: Metzger’s legacy; 7: Metzger’s impact on her world; 8: Metzger in our world; Appendix: Four talks by Hélène Metzger; Appendix 1: Should historians of science become the contemporaries of the scholars they study?; Appendix 2: The tribunal of history and the theory of scientific knowledge; Appendix 3: The a priori in scientific theory and in history of science; Appendix 4: The philosophical method in the history of science

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Dr. Cristina Chimisso is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and European Studies at the Open University. She is the author of the monographs Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France 1900–1960s (2008), written with the support of an AHRC grant, and Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination (2001).

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