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    Impure Epistemology and the Search for the Nervous Agent: A Case Study in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Neurophysics (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Science in context 9 (1996), S. 57-78 
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    ISSN: 0269-8897
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: History , Natural Sciences in General
    Notes: The ArgumentIn this contribution, I argue for epistemological impurity as the key to the historical reconstruction of the proto-biological sciences of the eighteenth century.The traditional approaches to the more or less complex and more or less stratified past of science either focus on the ideal content of that which has in the meantime been recognized as standard biological knowledge (transmitted from generation to generation by textbooks) or otherwise try to uncover the implicit cognitive principles at work in order to reveal their shortcomings (as measured against today's accepted criteria = epistemological presentism).A closer look at the breakdown of the classical models of mechanistic explanation and the detailed analysis of the new empirico-experimental research in the neurophysiology of the eighteenth century shows, however, that eclectic procedures of various kinds have dominated the field. This eclecticism (the principle of epistemological impurity) supported, and was in turn supported by, what has recently become known as “thinking with one's hand.” The paper illustrates this specific kind of thinking (and experimental acting) with reference to the case of Nicolas Le Cat's microphysics of nervous activity.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0269889700002313
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    Kurt Lewin: Philosopher-Psychologist (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Science in context 5 (1992), S. 372-384 
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    ISSN: 0269-8897
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: History , Natural Sciences in General
    Notes: Kurt Lewin's essay “Gesetz und Experiment in der Psychologie” of 1927, published in this issue of SiC for the first time in English translation, and his “Der Übergang von der aristotelischen zur galileischen Denkweise in Biologie und Psychologie” (in the English version: The Conflict between Aristotelian and Galilean Modes of Thought in Contemporary Psychology) of 19311 have together contributed most to shape his image as a metatheorist (or philosopher) of psychology. A careful examination of what has occasionally been called the “Lewinian tradition,”2 however, reveals that Lewin's metascientific contributions have been much more influential in Europe than in the United States, where he lived and taught as a Jewish refugee from 1934 until his early death on 2 February, 1947.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026988970000123X
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    Philosophy, Neurology, and the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness: On two unpublished letters from Ernst Cassirer to Kurt Goldstein (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Science in context 12 (1999), S. 645-660 
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    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: History , Natural Sciences in General
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0269889700003641
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    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Quest for Natural Species (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Science in context 9 (1996), S. 541-553 
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    ISSN: 0269-8897
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: History , Natural Sciences in General
    Notes: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was a prolific writer, a multifaceted naturalist, and a zoologist by second profession. Throughout his adult life he lived up to his passion of politely contributing to the advancement of natural philosophy by publishing more than 30,000 pages, probably too much for even the most scrupulous (and persevering) historians of science who seek to reconstruct his theories and to shed some light on the role he played in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century biology.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0269889700002611
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