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Phenomenology and Non-phenomenology
If the greatest lesson of phenomenology is that it remains incomplete and open, then its place in relation to our natural theorizing needs...
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‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813)
This chapter, focusing on Queen Mab (1813), arguesShelley, Percy Bysshe that Shelley’s early vision of death is informed by a distinct amalgam of...
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‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...
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Intentionality
This chapter explores what we find in the phenomenological field—intentional consciousness. It discusses the structures of intentional consciousness...
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The Galilean Principle of Relativity: The Ultimate Fundament of Moral Inversion
In this paper, I will present Michael Polanyi’s concept of moral inversion, which is the political end-point of a widespread intellectual phenomenon...
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The Tragedy of the Liberal Theory of Science
The Liberal Theory of Science, best articulated by Michael Polanyi, held that science advanced when autonomous scientists followed their best hunches...
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Attributing Meanings to “Science”, “Faith”, and “Society”
Michael Polanyi’s use of Gestalt as his model for acts of knowing and his ideal of performative consistency are two reasons why his mature theory of...
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Introduction
This volume includes selected essays by invited contributors on the social philosophy and the philosophy of science of the Hungarian-British polymath...
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The Incomplete Reduction
Merleau-Ponty famously states in the Preface that phenomenology’s greatest insight is that the phenomenological reduction cannot be completed. This...
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Concluding Remarks
I reflect on the openness of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, the contingency of consciousness and existence, as well as the philosophy that is meant...
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A Foundational Scepticism
René Descartes took up Galileo Galilei’s kinematic science and his foundational method in his Discourse on Method. He challenged ancient forms of...
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Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspective
The introduction distinguishes four distinct strands in the history of experimental control. The first is the historical development of control...
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Controlling Nature in the Lab and Beyond: Methodological Predicaments in Nineteenth-Century Botany
Botany changed dramatically in the nineteenth century, particularly in German-speaking countries, and an important part of this change was the...
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One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments
This chapter focuses on physicists from across Europe who, between the mid-1740s and the mid-1780s, investigated whether electricity promoted plant...
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Socrates, and the Skeptical Craft
Francis Bacon identified with Socrates in many ways. Socrates famously claimed that he knew nothing, but at least he knew that he knew nothing. He...
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Logical Doubts Concerning Induction
David Hume’s influential arguments against causal and inductive knowledge are presented below. Then, a powerful argument by Henri Poincare regarding...
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Evidence and Its Refutation
Generating a puzzle of the right kind requires a special kind of natural history or account as background. It is a history of the nature of things....
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Christoph Scheiner’s The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics
Accounts of the development of experimental methods (including controls, broadly understood) in the seventeenth century have tended to overlook...
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Pyrrhonians, a School of Skeptics
From the Pyrrhonians, who recommended living by appearances, Francis Bacon learned how apparent knowledge is practical. If we can improve how reality...
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Freedom by Confinement
His Anglican theology shaped Francis Bacon’s new plan for science. Thrown out of Eden, he believed, Adam had lost all knowledge, even of morals and...