When Historiography Met Epistemology : Sophisticated Histories and Philosophies of Science in French-Speaking Countries in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Emergence of an Intellectual Stream -- Chapter 1. Critical Analyses of Scientific Method -- Chapter 2. Between Experimentalism and Mild Naturalism -- Chapter 3. Different Attitudes Towards Reductionism -- Chapter 4. Mathematics and Determinism -- Chapter 5. Scientists and Philosophers on Determinism -- Chapter 6. Naïve versus Sophisticated Meta-theoretical Frameworks -- Chapter 7. Histories of Ancient Science and Mathematics -- Chapter 8. From Theoretical Physics to Meta-theoretical Commitments -- Chapter 9. Scientific Practice between Metaphysics and Experiments -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Disappearances and Questionable Reappearances -- References -- Index to Names.

In When Historiography Met Epistemology, Stefano Bordoni shows the emergence of sophisticated histories and philosophies of science in France after mid-nineteenth century. Since the 1860s, historical-critical reconstructions of scientific practice began to compete with naïve scientism.

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