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Reconsidering Historical Epistemology

By Matteo Vagelli

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Reconsidering Historical Epistemology

By Matteo Vagelli

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This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical synthetic approach to the study of science. Yet this account, considered by critics to be an unreflective assumption, has prevented historical epistemology from developing a clear understanding and definition, especially regarding how precisely historical and philosophical reflections on the sciences should be combined. Thus, this book uniquely analyses how the problems and tensions inherent to the "contemporary" phase of historical epistemology can be clarified by reference to the "classical" French phase. The archaeological method of Michel Foucault, which draws on and transforms fundamental insights by Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, is used to exert an enduring influence on the field-especially through the work of Ian Hacking and his philosophical cum historical analyses of "styles of scientific reasoning". Though this book is of great value to academic specialists and graduate students, the fact it addresses questions broad in scope ensures it is also relevant to a range of scholars in many disciplines and will provoke discussion among those interested in foundational issues in history and philosophy of science.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
2025-06-28
Publication Date:
2025-06-28
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031615573
ISBN13:
9783031615573
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[email protected]
Weight:
353 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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