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Literature and Science as Modes of Expression

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Frederick Amrine

    1. The University of Michigan, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 115)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Discourses of the Island

    • Gillian Beer
    Pages 1-27

  3. Discourses of the Nerve

    • G. S. Rousseau
    Pages 29-60

  4. Experiment and Fiction

    • Walter Moser
    Pages 61-80

  5. Hypotyposes

    • Robert Koch
    Pages 81-98

  6. The Mythological Transformations of Renaissance Science: Physical Allegory and the Crisis of Alchemical Narrative

    • Kenneth J. Knoespel
    Pages 99-112

  7. “What Ever Happened to Ethics?”

    • Géza von Molnár
    Pages 113-127

  8. Nature as Construct

    • John Neubauer
    Pages 129-140

  9. “Observe How Healthily — How Calmly I Can Tell You the Whole Story”: Moral Insanity and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

    • Paige Matthey Bynum
    Pages 141-152

  10. Conceptualizing Technology in Literary Terms: Some American Examples

    • Joseph W. Slade
    Pages 153-168

  11. Literature and the Authority of Technology

    • Miles Orvell
    Pages 169-175

  12. “A Place to Step Further”: Jack Spicer’s Quantum Poetics

    • Steven Carter
    Pages 177-188

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-201
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On the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote in another preface such as this that the time had come for establishing institutions supporting a vision to which the series had been devoted since its inception, namely that of a more broadly conceived, interdisciplinary study of the history and philosophy of science: In recent years it has become evident that, in addition to serious and competent disciplinary work on the specifics of the History of Science, the Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Science, there is now a growing need to develop a problem­ oriented approach which no longer distinguishes between these three specialties in a cut and dried way. Since the time has come for such an approach, the institutional tools should be provided. A way to do so would be . . . to organize colloquia and to publish good papers stemming from these, without attempting to organize the papers under the separate rubrics of History of Philosophy or Sociology of Science; and moreover to consider it natural that any fundamental issue of the foundations of the sciences, or their place in a culture and the way they are institutionalized in the societal web, is still our concern, no matter whether we are a professional scientist, historian or philosopher who deals with the problem (p. vii).

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  • The University of Michigan, USA

    Frederick Amrine

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