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The Social Origins of Modern Science

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Authors:
  1. Edgar Zilsel
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Editors:
  1. Diederick Raven

    1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Wolfgang Krohn

    1. Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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  3. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Boston University, Boston, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 200)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lx
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  2. The Social Roots of Modern Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Social Roots of Science

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Sociological Roots of Science

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 7-21

    4. The Methods of Humanism

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 22-64

    5. Remarks on Zilsel’s ‘The Methods of Humanism’

      • Paul O. Kristeller
      Pages 65-70

    6. The Origins of William Gilbert’s Scientific Method

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 71-95

    7. The Genesis of The Concept of Physical Law

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 96-122

    8. Copernicus and Mechanics

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 123-127

    9. The Genesis of the Concept of Scientific Progress and Scientific Cooperation

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 128-168

  3. Physical Law and Socio-Historical Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Problems of Empiricism

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 171-199

    3. Physics and the Problem of Historico-Sociological Laws

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 200-208

    4. Phenomenology and Natural Science

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 209-213

    5. Concerning ‘Phenomenology and Natural Science’

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 214-215

    6. History and Biological Evolution

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 216-220

    7. Science and the Humanistic Studies

      • Edgar Zilsel, Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 221-223

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 225-267
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About this book

Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) lived through the best of times and worst of times, through the renewal of scientific optimism and humane politics, and through the massive social collapse into idolatrous barbarism. With it all, and with his per­ sonal and family crises in Vienna and later in America, Zilsel was, I believe, a th heroic, indeed a model, scholar of the first half of the 20 century. He was widely admired as a teacher, at high schools, in workers education, in research tutoring and seminars. He was an original investigator on matters of the methodology of science, and of the history of the sciences. He was a social and political analyst, as a critical Marxist, of the turmoil of Vienna in the 20s. Above all, he achieved so much as a sociological historian who undertook re­ search on two central facts of the early modern world: recognition of the cre­ ative individual, and the ideal of genius; and the conditions and realities of the coming of science to European civilization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Diederick Raven

  • Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    Wolfgang Krohn

  • Boston University, Boston, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Social Origins of Modern Science

  • Authors: Edgar Zilsel

  • Editors: Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn, Robert S. Cohen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4142-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6457-3Published: 30 September 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1359-1Published: 31 July 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4142-0Published: 07 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LIX, 267

  • Topics: History, general, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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