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Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities

Part of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Book Series (volume 321)

Editors: van Dongen, Jeroen; Paul, Herman

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48893-6

ISBN: 978-3-319-48892-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 8, 2017

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities

van Dongen, Jeroen; Paul, Herman

Pages: 1 –10

[Epistemic virtues offer a promising angle for studying interaction between fields of research conventionally classified under the “sciences” and the “humanities.” Given that virtues like objectivity, honesty, and accuracy are not confined to specific disciplines, they allow for comparative...
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Chapter 2Confidence, Humility, and Hubris in Victorian Scientific Naturalism

Kidd, Ian James

Pages: 11 –25

[Most historians explain changes in conceptions of the epistemic virtues and vices in terms of social and historical developments. I argue that such approaches, valuable as they are, neglect the fact that certain changes also reflect changes in metaphysical sensibilities. Certain epistemic...
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Chapter 3“Broken Symmetry”: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America

Wang, Jessica

Pages: 27 –47

[During a century of high modernist confidence from roughly the last third of the nineteenth century onwards, scientists and other proponents of scientific investigation frequently claimed that scientific inquiry embodied both epistemic and moral virtues. This essay examines the lives and careers...
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Chapter 4Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Persistence

Stanley, Matthew

Pages: 49 –61

[A critical but often overlooked epistemic virtue is persistence: when scientists come up against an obstacle, why should they proceed? An investigator needs to have some reassurance that further investigation will be fruitful despite setbacks, uncertainty, or confusing results. Two important...
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Chapter 5The Epistemic Virtues of the Virtuous Theorist: On Albert Einstein and His Autobiography

van Dongen, Jeroen

Pages: 63 –77

[Albert Einstein’s practice in physics and his philosophical positions gradually reoriented themselves from more empiricist towards rationalist viewpoints. This change accompanied his turn towards unified field theory and different presentations of himself, eventually leading to his highly...
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Chapter 6Scholarly Vices: Boundary Work in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism

Engberts, Christiaan; Paul, Herman

Pages: 79 –90

[What are epistemic vices? Drawing on the cases of two mid-nineteenth-century Orientalists, both of whom were accused of serious vices, this chapter argues that dispositions perceived as detrimental to scholarly work were often difficult to distinguish from social or religious vices. Indeed, when...
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Chapter 7Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History

Paul, Herman

Pages: 91 –107

[This paper compares the occurrence and use of virtue language among physicists, chemists, and historians in late nineteenth-century Germany, with a special focus on obituaries written for the Göttingen professors Wilhelm Weber, Friedrich Wöhler, and Georg Waitz. Although virtue language was far...
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Chapter 8Virtues of Courage and Virtues of Restraint: Tyndall, Tait and the Use of the Imagination in Late Victorian Science

Saarloos, Léjon

Pages: 109 –128

[This paper offers an analysis of the views of two Victorian physicists, John Tyndall and Peter Guthrie Tait, on the scientific use of the imagination. John Tyndall saw the imagination as a way to overcome the limits of experience in science, while Peter Guthrie Tait, by contrast, regarded an...
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Chapter 9The Adventurer and the Documentalist: Science and Virtue in Interwar Nature Protection

De Bont, Raf

Pages: 129 –147

[The early twentieth century witnessed a growing sensibility about the decline of wild animal populations across the globe. In the interwar years, several international societies for nature protection were founded with the explicit goal to counter this trend by resorting to science. The societies...
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Chapter 10“The Lonely Form Dies”: How Epistemic Virtues Connect Roman Jakobson’s New Science of Language and His Personality

Karstens, Bart

Pages: 149 –171

[Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) counts as one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century. In the 1920s he was among the founders of structural linguistics, or shorthand ‘structuralism’. With this approach Jakobson wanted to establish a new scientific standard. He assembled a number of...

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