Chapter 1 Introduction: Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities

Chapter 2 Confidence, Humility, and Hubris in Victorian Scientific Naturalism

Chapter 3 “Broken Symmetry”: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America

Chapter 4 Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Persistence

Chapter 5 The Epistemic Virtues of the Virtuous Theorist: On Albert Einstein and His Autobiography

Chapter 6 Scholarly Vices: Boundary Work in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism

Chapter 7 Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History

Chapter 8 Virtues of Courage and Virtues of Restraint: Tyndall, Tait and the Use of the Imagination in Late Victorian Science

Chapter 10 “The Lonely Form Dies”: How Epistemic Virtues Connect Roman Jakobson’s New Science of Language and His Personality

Chapter 11 Johan Rudolph Thorbecke’s Revenge: Objectivity and the Rise of the Dutch Nation State