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Tables of Contents for The Scenes of Inquiry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Focusing on Questions
1
10
The Origin of the Present Work
1
1
The Aims of the Work
2
2
Metaphysical Assumptions
4
1
Plan of the Work
5
6
PART I. LOCAL REALITY
Scenes of Natural History
11
45
Introduction
11
1
An Agenda of Natural History
12
5
Foci of Controversy
17
8
Blumenbach and the Formative Drive
25
3
Kant: Teleology and Mechanism
28
5
Forays Beyond the Bounds of Sense: Herder, Kielmeyer and Goethe
33
10
Schelling and Oken: Kingdoms Beyond the Bounds of Sense
43
7
Shifting Scenes
50
6
Local Reality and Interpretation
56
21
Local Reality
56
2
Some Difficulties
58
4
Local Reality and Intelligibility
62
3
Strengths of our Account of Local Reality
65
3
Gadamer: Interpretation of Classic Works
68
9
Explaining Scenes
77
17
Introduction
77
2
Presuppositions
79
4
Methodical Commitments
83
7
Access to Methods and Practices
90
4
The Origins of Method
94
27
Introduction
94
2
Common Sense
96
3
Pontifical Disciplines
99
4
Exemplary Disciplines
103
4
Genuine Innovation
107
2
Remote Factors: Sites of Origin and Modes of Diffusion
109
5
Remote Factors: Stimuli to Change
114
5
Conclusion
119
2
Legitimation and History
121
25
Types and Contexts of Legitimation
121
3
History in the Sciences
124
6
Strategies of Historical Legitimation
130
2
Disciplinary Histories: Four Examples
132
14
A New Historiography
146
9
PART II. ABSOLUTE REALITY
Absolute Reality and Dissociation
155
13
Absolute Reality
155
1
Hacking's Challenge
155
5
Implications of Dissociation
160
1
Meeting Hacking's Challenge
161
7
The Sociological Challenge
168
25
Introduction
168
2
Collins: Calibrations Fair and Foul
170
7
Interest Theory
177
8
Networks and Multiple Constraints
185
8
Rhetoric, Aesthetics and Reliability
193
32
Introduction
193
3
Placing Experiments in Natural Philosophy
196
4
Discourses of Chemistry
200
4
The Challenge of Literary and Aesthetic Strategies
204
1
Meeting the Literary and Aesthetic Challenge
205
3
The Very Possibility of a Reliable Aesthetics
208
17
Conclusion: Beware of Science
225
18
PART III. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS (2000)
Original Meanings and Historical Interpretation
243
16
Introduction
243
1
Historical Understanding
244
2
Adequacy of Interpretation
246
5
Determinacy of Meaning
251
2
Consistency and Coherence
253
3
Forms of Literate Life
256
3
Original Significances and Historical Explanation
259
15
Introduction
259
1
Some Demands of Historical Explanation
260
5
The Significances of Actions
265
3
Original Significances and Causal Explanations
268
6
Where Meanings Were Made
274
15
Introduction
274
1
Laboratories
275
1
Cabinets and Museums
276
4
Authors, Heroic and Routine
280
5
Contingencies of Innovation
285
4
Bibliography
289
22
Index
311