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A scientist's voice in American culture : Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method
- Title
- A scientist's voice in American culture : Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method / Albert E. Moyer.
- Author
- Moyer, Albert E., 1945-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]
- ©1992
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Q143.N49 M68 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
- Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
- Newcomb, Simon 1835-1909
- Newcomb, Simon, (1835-1909)
- Newcomb, Simon
- Science > Methodology
- Science > United States > History
- Scientists > United States > Biography
- Science
- Science > Methodology
- Scientists
- Methode
- Wissenschaft
- Sciences > Méthodologie
- Sciences > États-Unis > Méthodologie
- Scientifiques > États-Unis > Histoire
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Introduction. Method, rhetoric, and Newcomb: the rhetorical aspects of scientific method; Newcomb and methodological rhetoric. II. Newcomb's life and thought. Formative years: growing up in the Maritime provinces; encountering Joseph Henry; scientific Cambridge -- Influences of Comte, Darwin, and Mill: Auguste Comte; Charles Darwin; John Stuart Mill; a textbook statement on method -- Interactions with Wright and Peirce: Chauncey Wright; Charles Sanders Peirce; views of Wright and Peirce -- Midcareer: taking charge of the almanac office; the planets and the moon; professional involvements -- American science, scientific method, and social progress: institutional deficiencies and public indifference; the nation's need for scientific method; social progress and the scientific use of language; the languages of physics, business, and philosophy.
- Political economics, old vs. the new school: Newcomb as political economist; partisan liberal policies; defending the old school; confronting Richard Ely and Edmund James -- Religion: a clash with Gray, Porter, and McCosh: The St. Louis speech; Asa Gray, Noah Porter, and James McCosh; Newcomb's personal religious skepticism -- Physics and mathematics: public understanding and educational reform. Response to John Stallo's Critique of physics; clarifying scientific terminology; the teaching of introductory mathematics -- Mental and psychical sciences, challenging current beliefs: scientific materialism; psychical research; address to the Psychical Society -- Later years: facts and fiction; reflections on method; old issues rejoined.
- 3. Commentary. Newcomb and American pragmatism: pragmatists in historical context; the philosophical core of pragmatism; Newcomb as a catalyst -- Pragmatism and methodological rhetoric: pragmatists as apostles of scientific method; pragmatism's emergence in the late nineteenth century.
- ISBN
- 0520076893
- 9780520076891
- LCCN
- 91048271
- OCLC
- ocm25131121
- 25131121
- SCSB-1954217
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library