A scientist's voice in American culture : Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method / Albert E. Moyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyer, Albert E., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.

Newcomb, Simon.

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Science--United States--History.

Scientists--United States--Biography.

Scientists.

Science--Methodology--United States.

Scientists--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 301 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a full-length study of Newcomb that traces the development of his faith in science and ranges over topics of great public debate in the Gilded Age, from the reform of economic theory to the recasting of the debate between science and religion.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. Method, Rhetoric, and Newcomb

PART II. NEWCOMB'S LIFE AND THOUGHT

2. Formative Years

3. Influences of Comte, Darwin, and Mill

4. Interactions with Wright and Peirce

5. Midcareer

6. American Science, Scientific Method, and Social Progress

7. Political Economics: Old versus the New School

8. Religion: A Clash with Gray, Porter, and McCosh

9. Physics and Mathematics: Public Understanding and Educational Reform

10. Mental and Psychical Sciences: Challenging Current Beliefs

11. Later Years

PART III. COMMENTARY

12. Newcomb and American Pragmatism

13. Pragmatism and Methodological Rhetoric

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-91213-6

0-585-11673-3

OCLC:

1419789311