Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Historiogrphy of Science
McEvoy, John (2007) Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Historiogrphy of Science. In [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: Since its inception in the eighteenth century, the discipline of the history of science has served a motley collection of extrinsic disciplinary interests, philosophical ideas, and cultural movements. This paper examines the historiographical implications of modernism and postmodernism and shows how they influenced positivist, postpositivist, and sociological interpretations of the Chemical Revolution. It also shows how these interpretations served the disciplinary interests of science, philosophy, and sociology, respectively, and it points toward a model of the history of science as history.
| Keywords: | Modernism, postmodernism, historiography of science |
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| Subjects: | General Issues: History of Philosophy of Science |
| Conferences and Volumes: | [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1 |
| ID Code: | 3490 |
| Deposited By: | McEvoy, John |
| Deposited On: | 06 September 2007 |