Postpositivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution

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ID9638436
AuthorsJohn G Mcevoy (University of Cincinnati, corresponding author), John McEvoy (University of Cincinnati)
Year2001
Volume36
Issue3
Pages453-470
Publication date2001-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4107 • E-ISSN: 2292-8502
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cjh.36.3.453
PMID19068932
OpenAlexW2418010279
LanguageEN
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Expressing the growing interest of historians of science in “the history of science as history,” this study offers a critical account of recent developments in the historiography of the Chemical Revolution. It explores the philosophical and historiographical dimensions of the “postpositivist” (or “theoreticist”) interpretations of the Chemical Revolution, which displaced the positivist-whig historiographical hegemony in the 1960s and 1970s, only to be challenged by the sociology of knowledge in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite its brief ascendancy in the pantheon of interpretive styles, postpositivism had a profound influence on the historiography of the Chemical Revolution, and this study will enable us to better appreciate its complex, variegated, and important results. Besides providing future specialists in the field with useful information, this study is designed to solicit the interest and input of more general historians in the history of science

Archaeology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Hegemony · Historiography · History of science · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Scientific revolution · Social science · Sociology · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

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