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William Whewell’s philosophy of architecture and the historicization of biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2016William Whewell's work on historical science has received some attention from historians and philosophers of science. Whewell's own work on the history of German Gothic church architecture has been touched on within the context of the history of architecture. To a large extent these discussions have been conducted separately.
Aleta Quinn
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Richard Jones and William Whewell
2022Abstract Richard Jones, Professor of Political Economy at the East India College, Haileybury, and William Whewell, Fellow and later Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, had been undergraduate contemporaries. They collaborated in the foundation of the Statistical Movement and in the development of an inductive economics, dependent on ...
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William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain
Annals of Science, 1979 This article aims to reveal the moral and theological dimensions of William Whewell’s philosophy of science. It suggests that, in addition to an internalist account of Whewell’s method and epistemology, there is a need to view his philosophy of science ...
Richard Yeo
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William Whewell, Cluster Theorist of Kinds [PDF]
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2023 A dominant strand of philosophical thought holds that natural kinds are clusters of objects with shared properties. Cluster theories of natural kinds are often taken to be a late twentieth-century development, prompted by dissatisfaction with ...
Ward, Zina B.
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William Whewell and Cambridge Mathematics
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 1980exaly +2 more sources
William Whewell and The Argument from Design
Monist, The, 1977Michael Ruse, Ruse Michael
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William Whewell, Galileo, and reconceptualizing the history of science and religion
Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2011 This paper advocates a reconceptualization of the history of science and religion. It is an approach to the subject that would aid research by historians of science as well as their message to others, both academic and non-academic.
David B. Wilson
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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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