The Origins of the Idea of Scientific Progress : Bernard de Fontenelle and His Contemporaries

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60526-0" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60526-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60526-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-60526-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Origins of the Idea of Scientific Progress : Bernard de Fontenelle and His Contemporaries

Original language description

This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy. The interpretation argues that the idea of scientific progress was not a historical category, but an epistemological one. The main thesis of the book posits that the idea of scientific progress was a methodological means of dealing with the contingency of nature. To illustrate the novelty of the idea, the individual chapters compare several features of Renaissance natural philosophy with a new regime of knowledge that included time as an inevitable factor of empirical research. The temporal regime of knowledge is illustrated by the work of Bernard de Fontenelle and his colleagues at the Académie des sciences in Paris at the end of the 17th century. The new interpretation remedies a gap in recent scholarship where the idea of scientific progress has been overlooked even though the early modern natural philosophers themselves used it to describe the nature of their research. The book places both well-known texts and less-studied documents in a new light, thus contributing to the lively and rich debate on the origins and nature of early modern science and philosophy. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of early modern philosophy and science.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-01948S" target="_blank" >GA20-01948S: The Idea of Scientific Progress in the Early Enlightenment (1684-1740): Fontenelle and His Contemporaries</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

9783031605253

Number of pages

224

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS book

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