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Sep 13, 2023 · A dominant strand of philosophical thought holds that natural kinds are clusters of objects with shared properties. Cluster theories of natural kinds are often taken to be a late-twentieth-century development prompted by dissatisfaction with essentialism in philosophy of biology. I argue, however, that a cluster theory of kinds was formulated by William Whewell (1794–1866) more than a ...
Volume 1 of The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, William Whewell The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, William Whewell: Author: William Whewell: Publisher: J.W. Parker, 1840: Original from: University of Lausanne: Digitized: Jun 3, 2008: Length: 586 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan
William Whewell. (1794-1866) William Whewell was a philosopher and theologian who worked with or influenced many prominent scientists (he actually coined the term "scientist") in the early nineteenth century, including Charles Darwin, John Herschel, Charles Lyell, and Michael Faraday. He opposed the views of the British empiricists John Locke ...
The present article is based on research supported by the Spencer Foundation. Some related studies of mine are: (i) ‘The Eighteenth-century Origins of the Concept of Scientific Revolution’, Journ. of the History of Ideas, Apr. 1976; (ii) ‘The Copernican Revolution from an Eighteenth-century Perspective: with Notes on Jean-Sylvain Bailly’s Views on Revolutions in Science’, to appear ...
Abstract. As we have seen, Whewell’s Philosophy of 1840 was the culmination of a process of intense philosophical deliberation that spanned the best part of the two decades prior to its publication. In its finished form the Philosophy did not recapitulate the process of its formation, but rather (and typical of the outcome of a Whewellian ...
Mar 6, 2014 · William Whewell’s work, especially the two volumes of Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences of 1840, is a noteworthy and, later, much discussed contribution to the philosophical debates about scientific discovery because he explicitly distinguished the creative moment or “happy thought” as he called it from other elements of scientific ...
História e desenvolvimento da ciência. William Whewell, c. Década de 1860. Em 1826 e 1828, Whewell se envolveu com George Airy na realização de experimentos na mina Dolcoath na Cornualha, a fim de determinar a densidade da Terra. Seus trabalhos unidos foram malsucedidos e Whewell fez pouco mais no caminho da ciência experimental.
