In Praise of an Independent Thinker: Stephen Gaukroger’s Methods, Concepts, and Command of Languages
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2024-12-24
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Cohen, H. Floris
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In this essay the author points at, and elucidates, three distinctive qualities in Stephen Gaukroger’s oeuvre as exemplified in his 4-volume masterpiece on ‘Science and the Shaping of Modernity’.
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Epistemic vices, Epistemic virtues, Historians’ concepts, Historical methods, Translation, Taverne, History and Philosophy of Science, History, Philosophy
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Cohen, H F 2024, In Praise of an Independent Thinker : Stephen Gaukroger’s Methods, Concepts, and Command of Languages. in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (The Netherlands). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (The Netherlands), vol. 62, Springer, pp. 27-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76037-2_3