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1991
Abstract William Whewell was a giant of Victorian intellectual culture. His influence, whether recognized or forgotten, is palpable in areas as diverse as moral philosophy, mineralogy, architecture, the politics of education, physics, engineering, and theology.
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Abstract William Whewell was a giant of Victorian intellectual culture. His influence, whether recognized or forgotten, is palpable in areas as diverse as moral philosophy, mineralogy, architecture, the politics of education, physics, engineering, and theology.
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The Scientific Methodology of William Whewell
Centaurus, 1976I have been employed ail the term hitherto upon a thumping paper on the Tides, which I intend to be a step of some consequence in the theory. I wish I could explain to you how useful my philosophy is in shewing me how to set about a matter like this, and how good a subject this one of the Tides is to exemplify it.
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William Whewell: Omniscientist
1991Abstract There was virtually no area in early nineteenth-century science in which William Whewell failed to make suggestions, comments, experiments, measurements, linguistic improvements, and (always dear to Whewell’s heart) critiques of the work of others.
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William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions
Monist, 1971Few scholars would deny that William Whewell ranks among the major figures in 19th-century philosophy of science. His Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences and his later Philosophy of Discovery remain among the classics of scientific methodology. The bulk of the scholarship devoted to Whewell has tended to stress the idealistic, anti-empirical temper of
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2018
William Whewell’s two seminal works, History of the Inductive Science, from the Earliest to the Present Time (1837) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History (1840), began a new era in the philosophy of science. Equally critical of the British ‘sensationalist’ school, which founded all knowledge on experience, and the ...
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William Whewell’s two seminal works, History of the Inductive Science, from the Earliest to the Present Time (1837) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History (1840), began a new era in the philosophy of science. Equally critical of the British ‘sensationalist’ school, which founded all knowledge on experience, and the ...
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William Whewell and the Concept of Scientific Revolution
1976Discussions of scientific change have, in recent years, come to center more and more on the concept of scientific revolution. No doubt, one of the reasons for the attention given to scientific revolutions has been the challenging thesis of Thomas S. Kuhn, in his widely-read book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.2 The critical response to Kuhn’s
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