Lukas M Verburgt
Biographic Data
| ID | 462155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lukas M Verburgt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lukas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Verburgt |
| SIGNATURE | VERBURGT L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6007-1324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Is there a Reader who can Handle it with any Comfort?’
With the Oxford Francis Bacon project yet to be completed, after more than 150 years the standard scholarly edition of Francis Bacon's (1561–1626) complete works is still The works of Francis Bacon . This great but now almost outdated Victorian edition was first published in London in seven volumes, 1857–1859. It has a rather complex publication history, often leading to confusion, which is well worth telling in full. The story is used here as an…
John Venn
Mehrtens, modernism, and modernity
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Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic
Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle’s syllogism between the 1820s and 1930s
Introduction
The process of thinking through the implications of the Anthropocene for the humanities, including history, is well under way. The time has come for historians of science to take stock of the situation in Anthropocene scholarship and collaboratively reflect on how we want to situate our field toward that scholarship. It will involve taking up such fundamental questions as why and how, as well as for and with whom, we do the history of science. Th…
Introduction
This introduction discusses the essays in this special issue in terms of ongoing changes in the historical study of knowledge. It addresses the challenges posed by the history of knowledge to the history of science and by the history of ignorance to the history of knowledge. It also discusses some of the central topics, themes, and issues at stake in studying the history of the production and circulation of ignorance. This article is part of a sp…
History, Scientific Ignorance, and the Anthropocene
This essay reflects on the ways in which the notions of scientific ignorance and the Anthropocene bear upon the development of the history of knowledge, asking what it might mean for the field to make an “ignorance” and “anthropocenic” turn. The central argument is that these turns suggest that the history of knowledge is and should strive to be more than an expansion of the history of science, instead taking up some of the epistemic challenges o…
Pragmatism at Cambridge, England before 1900
This paper responds to the new story about the history of pragmatism and early analytic philosophy presented in Cheryl Misak's Cambridge Pragmatism. One of the new story's key claims is that pragmatism was a home-grown American philosophy that entered the intellectual scene of 1920s England as an imported good. Taking up the long-neglected case of the English logician John Venn, the paper shows that pragmatism, as defined by Misak, existed in Cam…
John Venn
The Works of Francis Bacon
The Spedding-Ellis-Heath edition of The Works of Francis Bacon appeared in seven volumes between 1857 and 1859. Both a monument to Victorian scholarship and a staple of the history of science, this classic and historically significant work has been the authoritative edition of Bacon's oeuvre ever since. This essay tells part of the story of its creation, reception, and influence. It describes the origin of and plan for the edition and, focusing o…
The Venn-MacColl Dispute in Nature
During 1881, the British logicians John Venn and Hugh MacColl engaged in a brief dispute in Nature about ‘symbolical logic’. The letters to the editor shed interesting light on the early reception of MacColl’s contributions to logic and his position in the logical community of the Victorian era. Drawing on the correspondence between Venn and William Stanley Jevons, this paper analyzes the background and context of these letters, adding to the rec…
Duncan F. Gregory and Robert Leslie Ellis
The paper discusses some of the contributions of Duncan Farquharson Gregory and Robert Leslie Ellis to symbolical algebra and their views on the philosophy of mathematics with the aim of revisiting the accepted characterisation of the second generation of reformers of British mathematics found in Crosbie Smith and Norton Wise's seminal Energy and Empire. It is argued that at least some of the features brought to the fore in their treatment of the…
The place of probability in Hilbert’s axiomatization of physics, ca. 1900–1928
Flows, Fluxes and Monads
A Plea for Technological Activism at the European Borders
Introduction
The process of thinking through the implications of the Anthropocene for the humanities, including history, is well under way. The time has come for historians of science to take stock of the situation in Anthropocene scholarship and collaboratively reflect on how we want to situate our field toward that scholarship. It will involve taking up such fundamental questions as why and how, as well as for and with whom, we do the history of science. Th…
A Plea for Technological Activism at the European Borders
Flows, Fluxes and Monads
The place of probability in Hilbert’s axiomatization of physics, ca. 1900–1928
Duncan F. Gregory and Robert Leslie Ellis
The paper discusses some of the contributions of Duncan Farquharson Gregory and Robert Leslie Ellis to symbolical algebra and their views on the philosophy of mathematics with the aim of revisiting the accepted characterisation of the second generation of reformers of British mathematics found in Crosbie Smith and Norton Wise's seminal Energy and Empire. It is argued that at least some of the features brought to the fore in their treatment of the…
The Venn-MacColl Dispute in Nature
During 1881, the British logicians John Venn and Hugh MacColl engaged in a brief dispute in Nature about ‘symbolical logic’. The letters to the editor shed interesting light on the early reception of MacColl’s contributions to logic and his position in the logical community of the Victorian era. Drawing on the correspondence between Venn and William Stanley Jevons, this paper analyzes the background and context of these letters, adding to the rec…
Introduction
This introduction discusses the essays in this special issue in terms of ongoing changes in the historical study of knowledge. It addresses the challenges posed by the history of knowledge to the history of science and by the history of ignorance to the history of knowledge. It also discusses some of the central topics, themes, and issues at stake in studying the history of the production and circulation of ignorance. This article is part of a sp…
History, Scientific Ignorance, and the Anthropocene
This essay reflects on the ways in which the notions of scientific ignorance and the Anthropocene bear upon the development of the history of knowledge, asking what it might mean for the field to make an “ignorance” and “anthropocenic” turn. The central argument is that these turns suggest that the history of knowledge is and should strive to be more than an expansion of the history of science, instead taking up some of the epistemic challenges o…
Pragmatism at Cambridge, England before 1900
This paper responds to the new story about the history of pragmatism and early analytic philosophy presented in Cheryl Misak's Cambridge Pragmatism. One of the new story's key claims is that pragmatism was a home-grown American philosophy that entered the intellectual scene of 1920s England as an imported good. Taking up the long-neglected case of the English logician John Venn, the paper shows that pragmatism, as defined by Misak, existed in Cam…
John Venn
The Works of Francis Bacon
The Spedding-Ellis-Heath edition of The Works of Francis Bacon appeared in seven volumes between 1857 and 1859. Both a monument to Victorian scholarship and a staple of the history of science, this classic and historically significant work has been the authoritative edition of Bacon's oeuvre ever since. This essay tells part of the story of its creation, reception, and influence. It describes the origin of and plan for the edition and, focusing o…
John Venn
Mehrtens, modernism, and modernity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic
Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle’s syllogism between the 1820s and 1930s
Introduction
The process of thinking through the implications of the Anthropocene for the humanities, including history, is well under way. The time has come for historians of science to take stock of the situation in Anthropocene scholarship and collaboratively reflect on how we want to situate our field toward that scholarship. It will involve taking up such fundamental questions as why and how, as well as for and with whom, we do the history of science. Th…
‘Is there a Reader who can Handle it with any Comfort?’
With the Oxford Francis Bacon project yet to be completed, after more than 150 years the standard scholarly edition of Francis Bacon's (1561–1626) complete works is still The works of Francis Bacon . This great but now almost outdated Victorian edition was first published in London in seven volumes, 1857–1859. It has a rather complex publication history, often leading to confusion, which is well worth telling in full. The story is used here as an…
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History of Science and Natural History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (4 works)