On the New Nature and the Impact of Synthetic Philosophy on Cosmogenic Speculation

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Authors
Publication date 2024
Host editors
  • C. Wolfe
  • A. Waldow
Book title Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Book subtitle Essays in Honor of Stephen Gaukroger
ISBN
  • 9783031760365
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783031760372
Series Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Chapter 28
Pages (from-to) 275–283
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract This paper, which is a homage to the life and work of Stephen Gaukroger, explores competing receptions of Spencer’s programmatic synthetic philosophy. In so doing, I show how T.H. Huxley and C.S. Peirce reconfigured a familiar, long-standing debate about cosmogeny and cosmology in the early modern period.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76037-2_28
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