Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities

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<p>Focuses on how scholars in the sciences and humanities studied their subjects, through the innovative prism of epistemic virtues</p> <p>Examines interactions, the transfer of epistemic virtues and differences across scholarly fields</p> <p>Makes a rare attempt to attain an integrated perspective on the history of the sciences and humanities</p>

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<p><b>Jeroen van Dongen</b> is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of <i>Einstein¿s Unification </i>(Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has served as Editor and Associate Editor of the <i>Collected Papers of Albert Einstein</i> at Caltech and recently edited the volume <i>Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge</i> (Brill, 2015). Van Dongen has published extensively in journals as <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics</i>, <i>Centaurus</i> and <i>Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences</i>. </p> <p><b>Herman Paul</b> is Associate Professor of Historical Theory and Historiography at Leiden University. He is the author of <i>Key Issues in Historical Theory </i>(Routledge, 2015) and Hayden White: The Historical Imagination (Polity Press, 2011) and project leader of `The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1930.¿ Out of this project emerged several articles that</p> are of immediate relevance to the proposed volume, including `Virtue Language in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism: A Case Study in Historical Epistemology,¿  <i>Modern Intellectual History </i>(forthcoming); `What Is a Scholarly Persona? Ten Theses on Virtues, Skills, and Desires,¿ <i>History and Theory </i>53 (2014), 348-371; `Weak Historicism: On Hierarchies of Intellectual Virtues and Goods,¿ <i>Journal of the Philosophy of History</i> 6 (2012), 369-388; and `Performing History: How Historical Scholarship is Shaped by Epistemic Virtues,¿ <i>History and Theory </i>50 (2011), 1-19.<br/><p></p>

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