Biography: An Historiography
Biography: An Historiography

Author: Melanie Nolan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-03

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0429760833

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Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.

Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 8, 1890–1892
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 8, 1890–1892

Author: Charles S. Peirce

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-12-07

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13: 0253004217

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Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892—a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of income meant the beginning of permanent penury and a lifelong struggle to find gainful employment. His key achievement during these years is his celebrated Monist metaphysical project, which consists of five classic articles on evolutionary cosmology. Also included are reviews and essays from The Nation in which Peirce critiques Paul Carus, William James, Auguste Comte, Cesare Lombroso, and Karl Pearson, and takes part in a famous dispute between Francis E. Abbot and Josiah Royce. Peirce's short philosophical essays, studies in non-Euclidean geometry and number theory, and his only known experiment in prose fiction complete his production during these years. Peirce's 1883-1909 contributions to the Century Dictionary form the content of volume 7 which is forthcoming.

Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste

Author: Francis Seymour Stevenson

Publisher: Ardent Media

Published:

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Features a biographical sketch of the English mathematician Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Discusses Grosseteste's work in geometry, optics, and astronomy.