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@dangaristo @RandomJetship Jessica Wang writes about Wilson’s cathedral/accelerator analogy in this very nice book chapter: https://t.co/bgX6vMP52H
Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction: Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Confidence, Humility, and Hubris in Victorian Scientific Naturalism
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 “Broken Symmetry”: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Persistence
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 The Epistemic Virtues of the Virtuous Theorist: On Albert Einstein and His Autobiography
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Scholarly Vices: Boundary Work in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Virtues of Courage and Virtues of Restraint: Tyndall, Tait and the Use of the Imagination in Late Victorian Science
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 The Adventurer and the Documentalist: Science and Virtue in Interwar Nature Protection
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 “The Lonely Form Dies”: How Epistemic Virtues Connect Roman Jakobson’s New Science of Language and His Personality
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 Johan Rudolph Thorbecke’s Revenge: Objectivity and the Rise of the Dutch Nation State
Attention for Chapter 3:
“Broken Symmetry”: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America