The Platonism of Modern Physical Science: Historical Roots and “Rational Reconstruction”
Article in Foundations of Science (November 2023)
The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 An Analysis of Interactions between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 How Numerical Sociology Began by Counting Suicides: From Medical Pathology to Social Pathology
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Probabilistic Thinking, the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: Changing Configurations (1800–1850)
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 The Scientific Revolution and the Social Sciences
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 Blackstone’s “Newtonian” Dissent
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 From Political Economy to Market Mechanics: The Jevonian Moment in the History of Economics
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 The Technology of Nature: Marx’s Thoughts on Darwin
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Towards the Social Organism: Herbert Spencer and William B. Carpenter on the Analogical Method
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Darwin and the Agronomists: An Influence of Political Economy on Scientific Thought
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Milne-Edwards, Darwin, Durkheim and the Division of Labour: A Case Study in Reciprocal Conceptual Exchanges between the Social and the Natural Sciences
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 From Quetelet to Maxwell: Social Statistics and the Origins of Statistical Physics
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 A Conversation with Harvey Brooks on the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and Public Policy — Conducted by I. Bernard Cohen
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How Numerical Sociology Began by Counting Suicides: From Medical Pathology to Social Pathology