Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism

Porter, Dahlia

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“…The methods of scientific inquiry were further developed by Francis Bacon in his work Novum Organum, in which he rejects the Aristotelian syllogistic method in favor of induction logic, paving the foundations for the scientific method. The Baconian method was extremely influential in the field of science impacting Robert Boyle's work on chemistry [4,5] and Isaac Newton's formulation of universal gravitation [6,7,8]. By focusing the study of science around repeated observation and experimentation, rather than tradition or religion, philosophy steered the course of science away from irrational dogmatism and contributing to the exponential acceleration of scientific progress seen today.…”

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Role of Philosphic Knowledge in Developing Common Good and Justification for Government Funding of the Philosophers

Wang

2023

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Morality can be assessed through a teleological and deontological lens, in which an act is considered to be moral if it advances the common good and the means of achieving this societally beneficial outcome is justified. This study hypothesizes that funding the philosopher's work in a democratic government is moral, as value of philosophy lies in knowledge production and moral enrichment. This is governed by justifying four conditions through empiricism and the scientific method: serving the public interest, involving government role/intervention, strengthening the philosophic knowledge, and financing this knowledge through taxation. Focusing on the observational belief of acts, knowledge production, reasoning, and justification of beliefs continuously develop with philosophic ideas, making them suitable recipients of government funding. Morality is not absolute but socially constructed by several philosophic interventions in conjunction with the government's role. Secondly, there is a need for optimal philosophic knowledge, the adequate knowledge required to attain maximum social advantage with minimum cost. By constructing philosophic knowledge as an economic commodity, their dual status as a public and merit good justify their provision by the state. Lastly, the morality of taxation is discussed through philosophers lens such as Robert Nozick and John Rawls. As each citizen benefits from the government-provided facilities, thus paying a part of the income as tax to the government is moral. Moreover, the government is assisted by philosophic knowledge and creating moral goods. Thus, it is justified that funding a philosopher through taxation is moral as it does not infringe on individual freedom.

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Role of Philosphic Knowledge in Developing Common Good and Justification for Government Funding of the Philosophers

Wang

2023

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“…Porter's study of inductive reasoning in Edgeworth's work is helpful. 20 Porter shows that Maria Edgeworth and her father and collaborator, Richard Lovell…”

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Remaking Romantic Love in Maria Edgeworth’sBelinda

Morrissey

2020

The European Legacy

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“…Using Dahlia Porter's wonderful new work, we could tie this in both with the rise of induction in science (cutting the world into atoms of data and then reassembling them to produce generalities) and in the Romantic movement. 66 As JoAnne Yates showed, the world needed to be organized into computable form and computing structures before the technology could be invented; it was a consequence, not-as the boosters would have it-a cause of the information revolution. 67 CONCLUSION And yet there is something very new going on, even with my caveats about the gap between vision and reality.…”

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The Empire of the Future

Bowker

2019

History and Theory

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This rich collection analyzes science in the archives over the past several thousand years. The chapters work together to tell stories of ambitious attempts to provide timeless data for science, which will be used for generations to come—ranging from ancient astronomy to geology to life‐logging and the development of web search. They also demonstrate convincingly that archives are powerful forces across the sciences—every science discussed has an archival base—which partly determine what kind of general knowledge claims can be made by future generations: it is hard to read an archive askance. The collection works best as a series of individual chapters, though some work is done to indicate where they speak to one another. It is a pity that there was not more input from archivists themselves in the project: their noninclusion means that some archival issues (especially what goes on with data after it gets into the archive—how it gets cleaned up, changed, reorganized) are treated somewhat lightly. The collection does provide a very useful set of tools for thinking about scientific archives. It is also an excellent introduction to the peculiarities of scientific archives—one that reflects back on the use of archives in history in general.

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Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism

Cited by 34 publications

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Role of Philosphic Knowledge in Developing Common Good and Justification for Government Funding of the Philosophers

Role of Philosphic Knowledge in Developing Common Good and Justification for Government Funding of the Philosophers

Remaking Romantic Love in Maria Edgeworth’sBelinda

The Empire of the Future

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