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This selection of essays addresses, in particular historic methods and from specific disciplinary standpoints, the matter of data and what was once known as the category of the sciences. what's, or what passes for, wisdom? What are its divisions, and the way may still they be similar? Who possesses this data, and to what makes use of has it been positioned? How is it transmitted, and the way can its background be understood and written? Ranging around the epistemological barrier shaped by means of the revolution of recent technology, those contributions inquire into the altering disciplinary styles of the tumultuous occasions among the renaissance and the enlightenment, that observed the fragmentation of outdated beliefs and the construction of eu modernity.Contributors: DONALD R. KELLEY, ANN BLAIR, PAUL NELLES, CONSTANCE BLACKWELL, ULRICH SCHNEIDER, MARTIN MULSOW, J.B. SCHNEEWIND, DONALD VERENE, PETER MILLER, ANN MOYERS, MICHAEL SEIDLER, ANTHONY PAGDEN, PAULA FINDLEN, ANTHONY GRAFTON, HEIKKI MIKKELI, NICHOLAS JARDINE, LONDA SCHIEBINGER
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Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1989) and Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (1993). J. B. Schneewind is Professor of Philosophy at John Hopkins University, President of the Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas, and author of Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant (1990), etc. Ulrich Schneider, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig, is author of Die Vergangenheit des Geistes (1990) and many articles in German and French as well as English on the history of philosophy.
P. cm. Includes index. EuropeCivilizationPhilosophy. EuropeIntellectual life17th century. Historiography. Knowledge, Theory of. 01dc21 9724434 CIP British Library Caltaloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in the United States of America Designed and Typeset by Cornerstone Composition Services Page v CONTENTS Introduction 1 Part I. The Problem of Knowledge The Problem of Knowledge and the Concept of Discipline Donald R.
KELLEY Page 11 PART I THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE Page 13 The Problem of Knowledge and the Concept of Discipline Donald R. ). For philosophers this has meant above all epistemology or gnosiology, that is, the debates excited in the wake of the Cartesian cogito, the Lockean "way of ideas," and the Kantian critique of pure reason. 1 Can we know at all, and if so, how? Through the senses, reason, or a combination of the two? Can knowledge be certain? How can we achieve such certainty? Such questions have led academic philosophy down an abstract road toward a vision of "rigorous science" (strenge Wissenschaft, in Husserl's phrase)2 and hegemony over other fields, butsuch is the price that must be paid for such rigorthey have also encouraged a break between the form and content, the acquisition and transmission, and the nature and history of knowledge.