The formation of the scientific mind /
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| Author / Creator: | Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962. |
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| Uniform title: | Formation de l'esprit scientifique. English |
| Imprint: | Manchester : Clinamen, 2002. |
| Description: | viii, 258 p. ; 24cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy of science. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5055447 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mary McAllester Jones
- 1. The idea of the epistemological obstacle
- 2. The first obstacle: primary experience
- 3. General knowledge as an obstacle to scientific knowledge
- 4. An example of a verbal obstacle: sponge. On the over-extension of familiar images
- 5. Unitary and pragmatic knowledge as an obstacle to scientific knowledge
- 6. The substantialist obstacle
- 7. Psychoanalysing realists
- 8. The animist obstacle
- 9. The myth of digestion
- 10. The libido and objective knowledge
- 11. The obstacles to quantitative knowledge
- 12. Scientific objectivity and psychoanalysis.
