Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / Gowan Dawson

By: Dawson, GowanContributor(s): Dawson, Gowan | Lightman, Bernard VMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Variety Books Publishers & Distributors | :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 Publication details: London : The University of Chicago Press ©2014Description: viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226109503Subject(s): Science | Philosophy & theory | Naturalism -- History -- 19th century | Naturalism -- Religious aspects | Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century | Naturalism | Science -- Social aspects | Science -- history | Intellectual lifeDDC classification: 501 DAW
Contents:
Introduction / Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman -- Forging friendships -- "The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet": Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on paleontological method / Gowan Dawson -- Evolutionary naturalism on high: the victorians sequester the Alps / Michael S. Reidy -- Paradox: the art of scientific naturalism / George Levine -- Institutional politics -- Huxley and the Devonshire Commission / Bernard Lightman -- Economies of scales: evolutionary naturalists and the victorian examination system / James Elwick -- Odd man out: was Joseph Hooker an evolutionary naturalist? / Jim Endersby -- Broader alliances -- Sunday lecture societies: naturalistic scientists, unitarians, and secularists unite against sabbatarian legislation / Ruth Barton -- The conduct of belief: agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the formation of intellectual communities / Paul White -- Where naturalism and theism met: the uniformity of nature / Matthew Stanley -- New generations -- The fate of scientific naturalism: from public sphere to professional exclusivity / Theodore M. Porter -- The successors to the X Club? Late victorian naturalists and nature, 1869-1900 / Melinda Baldwin -- From agnosticism to rationalism: evolutionary biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and early twentieth-century scientific naturalism /- Peter J. Bowler -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of major works on scientific naturalism.
Summary: Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite
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Introduction / Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman --
Forging friendships --
"The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet": Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on paleontological method / Gowan Dawson --
Evolutionary naturalism on high: the victorians sequester the Alps / Michael S. Reidy --
Paradox: the art of scientific naturalism / George Levine --
Institutional politics --
Huxley and the Devonshire Commission / Bernard Lightman --
Economies of scales: evolutionary naturalists and the victorian examination system / James Elwick --
Odd man out: was Joseph Hooker an evolutionary naturalist? / Jim Endersby --
Broader alliances --
Sunday lecture societies: naturalistic scientists, unitarians, and secularists unite against sabbatarian legislation / Ruth Barton --
The conduct of belief: agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the formation of intellectual communities / Paul White --
Where naturalism and theism met: the uniformity of nature / Matthew Stanley --
New generations --
The fate of scientific naturalism: from public sphere to professional exclusivity / Theodore M. Porter --
The successors to the X Club? Late victorian naturalists and nature, 1869-1900 / Melinda Baldwin --
From agnosticism to rationalism: evolutionary biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and early twentieth-century scientific naturalism /- Peter J. Bowler --
Acknowledgments --
Bibliography of major works on scientific naturalism.

Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite

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