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Toulmin on Cosmology and the “Theology of Nature”

In April I finished up a series of posts on the anthropological concept of “cosmology” (meaning a coherent system of thought), and the relationships historians of the 1980s were able to dr… more →

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Toulmin on Cosmology and the "Theology of Nature" — 3 comments

Will Thomas wrote 2 years ago: In April I finished up a series of posts on the anthropological concept of “cosmology” ( … more →

Tags: Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, friedrich hayek, Galileo Galilei, Geoffrey Cantor, Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, Isaiah Berlin

The Bounds of Natural Philosophy: Temporal and Practical Frontiers, Pt. 2 — 4 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: How do we deal with this guy Faraday? If you wanted to pick out a transitional figure between a wide … more →

Tags: Crosbie Smith, Norton Wise, Jed Buchwald, Philip Mirowski, Jan Golinski, Simon Schaffer, David Gooding, Geoffrey Cantor, Joseph Agassi

The Bounds of Natural Philosophy: Temporal and Practical Frontiers, Pt. 1 — 3 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: Lord Kelvin: still natural philosophical after all these years If we accept the working idea that 18 … more →

Tags: Crosbie Smith, Norton Wise, Jed Buchwald, Arnold Thackray, Simon Schaffer, Jack Morrell, Geoffrey Cantor, Paul Lucier

The Bounds of Natural Philosophy: Intellectual Characteristics — 2 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: First off, apologies if some of the themes and arguments of this post have become repetitive.  I fin … more →

Tags: Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, David Bloor, Imre Lakatos, Geoffrey Cantor, Barry Barnes, Mary Douglas

Integration without Differentiation: The Fate of the Natural Philosophy Problem — 2 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: As I noted in my last post, the notion that we have experienced a historiographic revolution in the … more →

Tags: Steven Shapin, Peter Galison, Harry Collins, Peter Dear, Lorraine Daston, Simon Schaffer, Barry Barnes, Charles Rosenberg, christopher lawrence

Anthropological Cosmology and Anti-Demarcationism, Pt. 2 — 2 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: There was no such thing as the historiographic revolution and this is a (too-long) post about it. Hi … more →

Tags: Barry Barnes, Bruno Latour, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hill, Clifford Truesdell, G. S. Rousseau, Geoffrey Cantor, Harry Collins, Henk Bos

Anthropological Cosmology and Anti-Demarcationism, Pt. 1 — 2 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: If we ever wanted to get really serious about it, I doubt the notion of an “entente” bet … more →

Tags: Steven Shapin, Barry Barnes, Mary Douglas

Entente Cordiale: Anthropological and Natural Philosophical Cosmology — 5 comments

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: Simon Schaffer’s “Natural Philosophy” in Ferment of Knowledge (1980) is an exhilar … more →

Tags: Steven Shapin, Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, Charles Gillispie, Barry Barnes, Mary Douglas, Robin Horton

The Natural Philosophy Problem — 1 comment

Will Thomas wrote 3 years ago: I have decided that Geoffrey Cantor’s “The Eighteenth Century Problem,” an essay r … more →

Tags: Steven Shapin, Thomas Kuhn, Simon Schaffer, John Heilbron, Geoffrey Cantor, C. B. Wilde, P. M. Heimann, Rom Harre


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