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The Age of Methods: William Whewell, Charles Peirce, and Scientific Kinds (2016)

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Methodology of science; scientific method 19th century Peirce, Charles Sanders Whewell, William

For William Whewell and, later, Charles Peirce, the methods of science merited scientific examination themselves. Looking to history to build an inductive account of the scientific process, both men transformed scientific methods into scientific evidence. What resulted was a peculiar instance of what Ian Hacking calls “the looping effects of human kinds,” in which classifying human behavior changes that behavior. In the cases of Whewell and Peirce, the behavior in question was their own: namely, scientific study. This essay brings Hacking’s formulation to bear on the status of science in nineteenth-century intellectual history, revealing the continued entanglement of science and philosophy even as they were being prized apart. Focusing on how Whewell and Peirce turned themselves into “scientific kinds,” the essay reveals the slippage between “what” and “how” across what Peirce once called “the age of methods.”

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Authors & Contributors
Snyder, Laura J.
Quinn, Aleta
Wilson, Leigh
Whewell, William
Sloan, Phillip R.
Schickore, Jutta
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Perspectives on Science
Journal of Literature and Science
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Chicago Press
LED, Edizioni universitarie di lettere, economia, diritto
Kluwer Academic
Johns Hopkins University
Concepts
Methodology of science; scientific method
Philosophy of science
Science
Natural theology
Philosophy
Physics
People
Whewell, William
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Mill, John Stuart
Herschel, John Frederick William
Owen, Richard
Maunder, Edward Walter
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
China
Institutions
Trinity College Dublin
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