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Revitalising a nineteenth century debate about life (which has been done to death): or, how to live with historiographical pluralism
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This chapter shows how work in philosophy of science (PS) on pluralism and perspectivism can enhance history of science (HS). It provides a case-study from HS: a debate over the nature of life which took place at London’s Royal College of Surgeons in the early nineteenth century. According to John Abernethy, what distinguished living from non-living matter was that, in the tradition of eighteenth-century ‘Newtonian’ ether-theories, the living was pervaded and animated by a subtle, immaterial,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Herring, E
Role:
Editor
+ Jones, KM
Role:
Editor
+ Kiprijanov, KS
Role:
Editor
+ Sellers, LM
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Editor
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Host title:
- The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
- Chapter number:
- 11
- Pages:
- 210-227
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-31
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781351214827
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- Language:
- English
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- Subtype:
- Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1205628
- Local pid:
- pubs:1205628
- Deposit date:
- 2021-10-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Alex Aylward
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 selection and editorial matter Emily Herring, Kevin Matthew Jones, Konstantin S. Kiprijanov and Laura M. Sellers; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Notes:
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from
Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351214827
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