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65In search of the chemical revolution: Interpretive strategies in the history of chemistryFoundations of Chemistry 2 (1): 47-73. 2000.In recent years the Chemical Revolution has become a renewed focus of interest among historians of science. This interest isshaped by interpretive strategies associated with the emergence anddevelopment of the discipline of the history of science. The disciplineoccupies a contested intellectual terrain formed in part by thedevelopment and cultural entanglements of science itself. Threestages in this development are analyzed in this paper. Theinterpretive strategies that characterized each stage …Read more
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10Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise by Frederic Lawrence Holmes (review)Isis 82 382-382. 1991.
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12Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise. Frederic Lawrence HolmesIsis 82 (2): 382-382. 1991.
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43The Myth of the Framework. In Defense of Science and Rationality (review)Teaching Philosophy 18 (4): 388-390. 1995.
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13Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age (review)Annals of Science 67 (4): 581-583. 2010.No abstract
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27Positivism, whiggism, and the Chemical Revolution: A study in the historiography of chemistryHistory of Science 35 (107): 1-33. 1997.
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63A "revolutionary" philosophy of science: Feyerabend and the degeneration of critical rationalism into sceptical fallibilismPhilosophy of Science 42 (1): 49-66. 1975.The works of Paul K. Feyerabend, Norwood Russell Hanson and Thomas S. Kuhn have come to occupy a central place in the annals of contemporary philosophy of science. Some of their contemporaries,, tend to regard them as the vanguard of a new “revolutionary” intellectual movement. Reacting against the views of their positivist predecessors, they embrace and propagate the idea that “pervasive presuppositions” are fundamental to scientific investigations. Thus, Feyerabend thinks that, “... scientific…Read more
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38Victor D. Boantza: "Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution" (review)Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 20 (1): 193-196. 2014.Book Review of Victor D. Boantza: Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution, Ashgate 2013.
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Lavoisier, Priestley and the Philosophes: Epistemic and Linguistic Dimensions to the Chemical RevolutionLumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 8 91-98. 1989.
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53Bibliography of the Philosophy of Science, 1945-1981 (review)Teaching Philosophy 7 (4): 372-373. 1984.
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