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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (12)
  • 1995-1999  (12)
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    Memory & Oblivion : Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art held in Amsterdam, 1-7 September 1996 (1999)
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    ISBN: 9789401140065
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 1110 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Humanities ; Architecture ; History ; Anthropology ; Arts. ; History. ; Cultural property. ; Architecture. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4006-5
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  • 2
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    Fallen Angels : Balthasar Bekker, Spirit Belief, and Confessionalism in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Republic (1999)
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    ISBN: 9789401715317
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 184 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées 165
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 165
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy of mind ; History ; Religion.
    Abstract: Dutch Reformed pastor Balthasar Bekker (1634-1698) has long been recognized as a key figure in the end of the witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe. With the publication of his monumental four-volume work The World Bewitched Bekker argued against the temporal activity of the devil and evil spirits as well as against the reality of witchcraft, sorcery, and spirit possession. Yet Bekker's ideas drew opposition from Dutch Reformed clergymen who charged that his use of Cartesian philosophy to reject the temporal activity of spirits threatened much of traditional religious faith. This book argues that it wa Bekker's exegesis of biblical passages in which spirits and spirit activity were mentioned that was a far greater threat than his Cartesian metaphysics to the literal interpretation of the Bible which was the intellectual cornerstone of Dutch reformed confessionalism, dominant in the church since the Synod of Dordrecht (1618-1619). With an examination of the ideas of Bekker, his opponents and supporters, this book places the controversy around The World Bewitched within the context of the Cartesian debates of the seventeenth century and the growth of confessionalism within the Dutch Reformed church
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1531-7
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    East European Academies in Transition (1998)
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    ISBN: 9789401591218
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 165 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Library 1
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    Keywords: Humanities ; History ; Political science. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: The political and economic transformation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has also affected their research systems. The radical regime change in these formerly state socialist societies made major reforms of their research systems possible. But the implementation of these reforms was constrained by the economic and fiscal crisis following the transition to a market economy. Scholars from post-communist CEE countries have studied in close cooperation how the major research organizations of these countries, their academies of sciences, have reacted to the new opportunities and problems. Based on a preliminary series of country reports, in-depth case studies of selected academy institutes in all major CEE countries were conducted to trace the effect of these changes on scientific research. The present volume analyses the rich case study material in a comparative perspective, highlighting both general trends and significant differences between countries and disciplines. Major aspects are: financial threats and coping strategies, especially personnel reduction and the consequence of an aging research staff, changes in academy-institute relations and in the relationship to the university sector, shifting emphases between basic and applied research, and the new patterns of international cooperation in research
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9121-8
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    Constructivism in Science Education : A Philosophical Examination (1998)
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    ISBN: 9789401150323
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 234 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Philosophy ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Humanities ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching .
    Abstract: Constructivism is one of the most influential theories in contemporary education and learning theory. It has had great influence in science education. The papers in this collection represent, arguably, the most sustained examination of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of constructivism yet published. Topics covered include: orthodox epistemology and the philosophical traditions of constructivism; the relationship of epistemology to learning theory; the connection between philosophy and pedagogy in constructivist practice; the difference between radical and social constructivism, and an appraisal of their epistemology; the strengths and weaknesses of the Strong Programme in the sociology of science and implications for science education. The book contains an extensive bibliography. Contributors include philosophers of science, philosophers of education, science educators, and cognitive scientists. The book is noteworthy for bringing this diverse range of disciplines together in the examination of a central educational topic
    Description / Table of Contents: Introductory Comments on Philosophy and Constructivism in Science EducationCognition, Construction of Knowledge, and Teaching -- Constructivism in Science and in Science Education: A Philosophical Critique -- Constructivism Deconstructed -- Constructivism Reconstructed: A Reply to Suchting -- Constructivisms and Relativisms: A Shopper’s Guid -- Constructivisms and Objectivity: Disentangling Metaphysics from Pedagog -- Social Constructivism, the Gospel of Science, and the Teaching of Physics -- Coming to Terms with Radical Social Constructivisms -- Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Science Educatio -- Reflections on Peter Slezak and the’ sociology of Scientific Knowledge’ -- Educational Constructivism and Philosophy: Some References -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- NAME INDEX.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5032-3
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    The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity : Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850 (1998)
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    ISBN: 9789401155281
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 206 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook 20
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 20
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    Keywords: Humanities ; History ; Philosophy. ; Political science.
    Abstract: This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850. It is shown that the social sciences were a crucial element in the conceptual and epistemic revolution, which parallelled and partly underpinned the political and economic transformations of the modern world. From a consistently comparative perspective, a group of internationally leading scholars takes up fundamental issues such as the role of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution in the shaping of the social sciences, the changing relationships between political theory and moral discourse, the profound transformation of philosophy, and the constitution of political economy and statistics
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5528-1
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    Knowledge and Reality : An Essay in Positive Philosophy (1998)
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    ISBN: 9789401590402
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 221 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 59
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; History ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The current debate in philosophy of science and epistemology is characterised by some strong oppositions, such as those between instrumentalism and scientific realism, methodological anarchism and critical rationalism, historical contextualism and metaphysical realism, naturalism and normativism. By means of a close interaction between historical research and theoretical perspective, this book aims to develop a `third way' between absolutism and radical relativism. This new conception is called `positive' because it is linked to the basic features of the esprit positif: empiricism, moderate epistemic relativism, and non-metaphysical objectivism. This book revives the early twentieth century controversy between the immanent and transcendent conception of the object of knowledge, and offers a new interpretation of the relationships between Logical Positivism, Kantian thought, and conventionalist philosophy of science. According to the author, such a `positive philosophy' is able to counter the `conversational' and post-modern attacks on objectivity and truth. Knowledge and Reality presents an original view of the status and role of philosophy, spelling out the intrinsic limitations of the analytic approach, together with the reasons that induce the author to place himself within that tradition. Audience: Libraries and research workers in epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, history of philosophy and history of science, and philosophy of language
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9040-2
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    Reading Engelhardt : Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr (1997)
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    ISBN: 9789401155304
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 312 p)
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; History ; Ethics ; Medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics -- 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5530-4
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    Shaping Concepts of Technology : From Philosophical Perspective to Mental Images (1997)
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    ISBN: 9789401155984
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (V, 201 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Education ; Technology Philosophy ; Humanities ; History ; Vocational education. ; Technology—Philosophy. ; Professional education.
    Abstract: What is the nature of technology? And what is the body of knowledge for technology? Those questions are discussed both in the philosophy of technology and in technology education, but in different ways. Philosophers develop valid concepts of technology and educationalists reflect on the way such concepts can be built up in the minds of pupils and students. Not only the overall concept of technology but also specific concepts within technology are presented both from philosophical and from educational perspectives. This book shows how the philosophy of technology can provide an academic background for the development of technology education. At the same time it helps philosophers to take into account the intuitive ideas people hold in their considerations about the true nature of technology. The texts are adapted versions of papers that were presented at the second Jerusalem International Science and Technology Education Conference held in 1996
    Description / Table of Contents: Shaping Concepts of Technology: What Concepts and How to Shape ThemA. Philosophical Perspectives -- The Roots of Technology and Science: A Philosophical and Historical View -- Science, Technology and Society: A Methodological Perspective -- Thought, Action and Scientific Technology -- Science and Technology as Social Relations -- Knowledge Types in Technology -- The Structure of Technology Knowledge -- B. Mental Images -- Recent Research in Learning Technological Concepts and Processes -- Concept Mapping as a Means of Evaluating Primary School Technology Programmes -- The Value of a Utilitarian Curriculum: The Case of Technological Education -- Reconstructionism in Technology Education -- Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge -- Learning Technological Concepts and Developing Intellectual Skills -- Transforming Engineering Concepts for Technical and Vocational Teacher Education.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5598-4
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    Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (1997)
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    ISBN: 9789401714167
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (LIV, 1117 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud­ ies. Reference works on other cultures tend either to omit science completely or pay little attention to it, and those on the history of science almost always start with the Greeks, with perhaps a mention of the Islamic world as a trans­ lator of Greek scientific works. The purpose of the Encyclopaedia is to bring together knowledge of many disparate fields in one place and to legitimize the study of other cultures' science. Our aim is not to claim the superiority of other cultures, but to engage in a mutual exchange of ideas. The Western aca­ demic divisions of science, technology, and medicine have been united in the Encyclopaedia because in ancient cultures these disciplines were connected. This work contributes to redressing the balance in the number of reference works devoted to the study of Western science, and encourages awareness of cultural diversity. The Encyclopaedia is the first compilation of this sort, and it is testimony both to the earlier Eurocentric view of academia as well as to the widened vision of today. There is nothing that crosses disciplinary and geographic boundaries, dealing with both scientific and philosophical issues, to the extent that this work does. xi PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Many years ago I taught African history at a secondary school in Central Africa.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1416-7
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    The Influence of Edmund D. Pellegrino’s Philosophy of Medicine (1997)
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    ISBN: 9789401733649
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (V, 215 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; History ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D. Pellegrino, a renowned physician educator and philosopher. Pellegrino's thinking about the philosophy of medicine centers on the importance of illness in the life of the patient, and the professional relationship established by promising to alleviate suffering. From this relationship norms are established that contribute to the staying power of medicine as a moral enterprise. Chapters are included from established thinkers and newcomers to the field, all of whom have been influenced by Pellegrino. Some chapters expand upon his thinking for primary care, managed care, and other delivery systems. Other chapters explain in more detail certain key concepts in Pellegrino's thought, like beneficence, doing no harm, and clinical phronesis or prudential decision making. Still others explore areas of difficulty like the reliance on role modeling and virtue ethics, the problem of pluralism and a loss of professional normative ethics, and the search for the foundations of the philosophy of medicine. Constructing a viable philosophy of medicine for the next century is an essential task for grounding the morality of medicine during enormous social and economic change. Pellegrino's thinking and the ideas of those he has influenced will contribute immensely to this challenge
    Description / Table of Contents: Edmund D. Pellegrino FestschriftEdmund D. Pellegrino’s Philosophy of Family Practice -- The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice -- The Inadequacy of Role Models for Educating Medical Students in Ethics with Some Reflections on Virtue Theory -- A Dialogue Between Virtue Ethics and Care Ethics -- Futility and the Varieties of Medical Judgment -- Finding an Appropriate Ethic in a World of Moral Acquaintances -- Philosophy of Medical Practice: A Discursive Approach -- “Damaged Humanity”: The Call for a Patient-Centered Medical Ethic in the Managed Care Era -- Antifoundationalism and the Possibility of a Moral Philosophy of Medicine -- Why Bioethics Needs the Philosophy of Medicine: Some Implications of Reflection on Concepts of Health and Disease -- The Crisis of Virtue: Arming for the Cultural Wars and Pellegrino at the Limes -- Phronesis, Clinical Reasoning, and Pellegrino’s Philosophy of Medicine -- Why “Do No Harm”?.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3364-9
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    The Codification of Medical Morality : Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Volume Two: Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century (1995)
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    ISBN: 9780585274447
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 238 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 49
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; History ; Ethics. ; History. ; Medicine—History. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century America and the development of a different, but parallel, tradition of medical jurisprudence in nineteenth century Britain. These original papers are supplemented by reprints of: the first American Code of medical ethics, the Boston Medical Police of 1808; and an unabridged version of the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics; and the second (1886) edition of Jukes Styrap's Code of Ethics - a Code which, although officially rejected by the British Medical Association, nonetheless defined the `done thing' for British practitioners in the last decades of the nineteenth century
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-585-27444-7
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    Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401106733
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 356 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook - 1994 18
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 18
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The disciplines of biology and the social sciences share common roots in history and yet have drifted so far apart that the demarcation line between them has become a contested boundary. The boundary shift between the `natural' and the `social' is becoming permanent: moves in either direction are subject to ideological rhetoric. Yet there is continual exchange across the line: metaphors are moving freely between biology and the social sciences. As messengers of meaning they become agents of change, forever undermining any attempt at fixing similarities and differences. Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors offers a unique look at the function of metaphors in mediating between two disciplinary cultures which represent and mold our views about nature and society, and the boundary between them. For professionals and students of history, philosophy and sociology of science, biology, and literary science alike
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Metaphors: Is There a Bridge over Troubled Waters?I: Metaphors Revalued -- Who is Afraid of Metaphors? -- How Nature Became the Other: Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy -- The Manifest and the Scientific -- The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language, and the Enlightenment Study of Apes -- II: “Struggle” -- Social Metaphors in Evolutionary Biology, 1870-1930: The Wider Dimension of Social Darwinism -- “Struggle for Existence”: Selection and Retention of a Metaphor -- III: “Evolution” and “Organism” -- The Importance of the Concepts of “Organism” and “Evolution” in Emile Durkheim’s Division of Social Labor and the Influence of Herbert Spencer -- Herbert Spencer: Biology, Sociology, and Cosmic Evolution -- The Superorganism Metaphor: Then and Now -- Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890-1950 -- IV: Economics -- A Plague Upon Your House: Commercial Crisis and Epidemic Disease in Victorian England -- Evolutionary Metaphors in Explanations of American Industrial Competition -- Biological and Physical Metaphors in Economics.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0673-3
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