Peter Dear
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 526749 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Dear |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Dear |
| ASSINATURA | DEAR P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The World as We Know It
Lady Ranelagh
Jessica Riskin. The Restless Clock
Jessica Riskin. The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick. Jessica Riskin. The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 548. $40.00. Peter Dear Peter Dear Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 122, …
Darwin and Deep Time
Charles Darwin built a world around an implied metaphysics of time that treated deep time as something qualitatively different from ordinary, experienced time. He did not simply require a vast amount of time within which his primary evolutionary mechanism of natural selection could operate; in practice, he required a deep time that functioned according to different rules from those of ordinary, "shallow" time. The experience of the naturalist occ…
Experiment in Science and Technology Studies
Newton and the Origin of Civilization, by Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold
Fifty years of Structure
Horizontal explanation in the enlightenment
Historiography of Not-So-Recent Science
With most categories now apparently contestable in professional historiography, historians of science (so-called) surely feel especially vulnerable - not least those concerned with periods prior to the nineteenth century. If the 'early modern' dangerously implies teleology, the 'modern' implies a terminus from which the only exit seems to be the postmodern;1 all such labels invite accusations of progressivist historicism and, for the acutely trai…
Science Is Dead; Long Live Science
Scholars nowadays generally accept that there is no single enterprise of “science”—that there is a multiplicity of special studies that are grouped together under that label. This article discusses a possible route by which to trace certain common cultural characteristics of modern science, rooted in a particular (and complex) relationship between discourses of philosophical understanding and utilitarian practice. The issue is examined in relatio…
Divine Illumination, Mechanical Calculators, and the Roots of Modern Reason
Argument Talk of “reason” and “rationality” has been perennial in the philosophy and sciences of the European, Latin tradition since antiquity. But the use of these terms in the early-modern period has left especial marks on the specialties and disciplines that emerged as components of “science” in the modern world. By examining discussions by seventeenth-century philosophers, including natural philosophers such as Descartes, Pascal, and Hobbes, …
Dismantling Boundaries in Science and Technology Studies
The boundaries between the history of science and science and technology studies (STS) can be misleadingly drawn, to the detriment of both fields. This essay stresses their commonalities and potential for valuable synergy. The evolution of the two fields has been characterized by lively interchange and boundary crossing, with leading scholars functioning easily on both sides of the past/present divide. Disciplines, it is argued, are best regarded…
The History of Science and the History of the Sciences
The intent and content of Isis since its inauguration in 1913 have in some ways tracked changes in both a professionalizing history of science and in the cultures of scientific disciplines. George Sarton saw history as part of an overall metascientific project in which the sciences themselves participated, and his perspective was often duplicated by the constructive appropriation of history by scientists: a century ago, scientific culture often i…
The Jewel House
Reviewed by: The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution Peter R. Dear (bio) The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. By Deborah E. Harkness. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+349. $32.50. London in the late Elizabethan period produced most famously, in the history of science, Francis Bacon. Bacon’s stress on utility, and the potential role of a form of natural philosophy in p…
The Intelligibility of Nature
What Is the History of Science the History Of
The mismatch between common representations of "science" and the miscellany of materials typically studied by the historian of science is traced to a systematic ambiguity that may itself be traced to early modern Europe. In that cultural setting, natural philosophy came to be rearticulated (most famously by Francis Bacon) as involving both contemplative and practical knowledge. The resulting tension and ambiguity are illustrated by the eighteenth…
The ideology of modern science
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
Book Review| April 01 2003 Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy Stephen Gaukroger, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 249. Peter Dear Peter Dear Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 273–276. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-2-273 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Intelligibility in Science
The central issue that I want to address is that of "intelligibility" in the history of science. By using this term, however, I do not mean to imply simply an enterprise of analyzing more-or-less coherent conceptual structures, so as to be able to say that people believed a particular doctrine either because it was "consistent" with other ideas that they held, or else because it was strategically useful to them in the particular contexts in which…
Religion, science and natural philosophy
Reply to Andrew Cunningham
Descartes and the Last Scholastics . Roger Ariew
A culture of fact
The Scientific Revolution
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
What Is the History of Science the History Of
The mismatch between common representations of "science" and the miscellany of materials typically studied by the historian of science is traced to a systematic ambiguity that may itself be traced to early modern Europe. In that cultural setting, natural philosophy came to be rearticulated (most famously by Francis Bacon) as involving both contemplative and practical knowledge. The resulting tension and ambiguity are illustrated by the eighteenth…
Miracles, Experiments, and the Ordinary Course of Nature
Dismantling Boundaries in Science and Technology Studies
The boundaries between the history of science and science and technology studies (STS) can be misleadingly drawn, to the detriment of both fields. This essay stresses their commonalities and potential for valuable synergy. The evolution of the two fields has been characterized by lively interchange and boundary crossing, with leading scholars functioning easily on both sides of the past/present divide. Disciplines, it is argued, are best regarded…
From Truth to Disinterestedness in the Seventeenth Century
Words have social as well as lexical meanings. This paper traces a semantic shift of the word `objective', and the issues arising from it, in the seventeenth century. A word attaching to the concept of `truth' at the beginning of the century came increasingly to give way to considerations of `disinterestedness'; the restructuring of European intellectual life associated with the Scientific Revolution thus involved the constitution of knowledge-cl…
Jesuit mathematical science and the reconstitution of experience in the early seventeenth century
Cultural History of Science
The increased popularity of the label "cultural" within science studies, especially in relation to "cultural studies, " invites consideration of how it is and can be used in historical work. A lot more seems now to be invested in the notion of "cultural history. " This article examines some recent historiography of science as a means of considering what counts as cultural history in that domain and attempts to coordinate it with the sociologicall…
Historiography of Not-So-Recent Science
With most categories now apparently contestable in professional historiography, historians of science (so-called) surely feel especially vulnerable - not least those concerned with periods prior to the nineteenth century. If the 'early modern' dangerously implies teleology, the 'modern' implies a terminus from which the only exit seems to be the postmodern;1 all such labels invite accusations of progressivist historicism and, for the acutely trai…
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution Peter Dear (bio) The “Scientific Revolution” is nowadays, as a category, much less attractive to historians than it once was. It seems to carry overtones of Whiggish triumphalism that are widely seen as out of keeping with a proper scholarly understanding of issues to do with the making of European natural knowledge in the sixteenth and s…
The History of Science and the History of the Sciences
The intent and content of Isis since its inauguration in 1913 have in some ways tracked changes in both a professionalizing history of science and in the cultures of scientific disciplines. George Sarton saw history as part of an overall metascientific project in which the sciences themselves participated, and his perspective was often duplicated by the constructive appropriation of history by scientists: a century ago, scientific culture often i…
Intelligibility in Science
The central issue that I want to address is that of "intelligibility" in the history of science. By using this term, however, I do not mean to imply simply an enterprise of analyzing more-or-less coherent conceptual structures, so as to be able to say that people believed a particular doctrine either because it was "consistent" with other ideas that they held, or else because it was strategically useful to them in the particular contexts in which…
Science Is Dead; Long Live Science
Scholars nowadays generally accept that there is no single enterprise of “science”—that there is a multiplicity of special studies that are grouped together under that label. This article discusses a possible route by which to trace certain common cultural characteristics of modern science, rooted in a particular (and complex) relationship between discourses of philosophical understanding and utilitarian practice. The issue is examined in relatio…
The ideology of modern science
Fifty years of Structure
Religion, science and natural philosophy
Totius in Verba
Jesuit mathematical science and the reconstitution of experience in the early seventeenth century
Der cartesische Materialismus, Maschine, Gesetz und Simulation
French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Lingua universalis
Miracles, Experiments, and the Ordinary Course of Nature
The Uses of Experiment
From Truth to Disinterestedness in the Seventeenth Century
Words have social as well as lexical meanings. This paper traces a semantic shift of the word `objective', and the issues arising from it, in the seventeenth century. A word attaching to the concept of `truth' at the beginning of the century came increasingly to give way to considerations of `disinterestedness'; the restructuring of European intellectual life associated with the Scientific Revolution thus involved the constitution of knowledge-cl…
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. Volume 3
Portraits of Thought
Descartes's Metaphysical Physics . Daniel Garber
Promoting Experimental Learning
Discipline and Experience
William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature
Galileo, courtier
(1995). Galileo, courtier: The practice of science in the culture of absolutism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 626-628
Trust Boyle
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Cultural History of Science
The increased popularity of the label "cultural" within science studies, especially in relation to "cultural studies, " invites consideration of how it is and can be used in historical work. A lot more seems now to be invested in the notion of "cultural history. " This article examines some recent historiography of science as a means of considering what counts as cultural history in that domain and attempts to coordinate it with the sociologicall…
La formation de la pratique scientifique
Author’s response
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution Peter Dear (bio) The “Scientific Revolution” is nowadays, as a category, much less attractive to historians than it once was. It seems to carry overtones of Whiggish triumphalism that are widely seen as out of keeping with a proper scholarly understanding of issues to do with the making of European natural knowledge in the sixteenth and s…
The Scientific Revolution
Descartes and the Last Scholastics . Roger Ariew
A culture of fact
Religion, science and natural philosophy
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