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13Somewhere between hagiography and debunking lies truth. Or so we may think: the biographer’s sources are almost always tipped one way or the other, and it is his or her job to establish, or divine, the way of authentic fact and, if facts fall short, then of sturdy sober hypothesis. In general the debunker has more fun, especially when the weight of tradition favors the ennobling, if not the beatification, of its subject.
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13Mechanisms of life in the seventeenth century: Borelli, Perrault, RégisStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (2): 245-260. 2005.
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Washington University in St. LouisProfessor
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mathematics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |