Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction: Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
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Chapter 2
Confidence, Humility, and Hubris in Victorian Scientific Naturalism
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Chapter 3
“Broken Symmetry”: Physics, Aesthetics, and Moral Virtue in Nuclear Age America
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Chapter 4
Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Persistence
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Chapter 5
The Epistemic Virtues of the Virtuous Theorist: On Albert Einstein and His Autobiography
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Chapter 6
Scholarly Vices: Boundary Work in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism
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Chapter 7
Weber, Wöhler, and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics, Chemistry, and History
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Chapter 8
Virtues of Courage and Virtues of Restraint: Tyndall, Tait and the Use of the Imagination in Late Victorian Science
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Chapter 9
The Adventurer and the Documentalist: Science and Virtue in Interwar Nature Protection
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Chapter 10
“The Lonely Form Dies”: How Epistemic Virtues Connect Roman Jakobson’s New Science of Language and His Personality
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Chapter 11
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke’s Revenge: Objectivity and the Rise of the Dutch Nation State
Attention for Chapter 4:
Religious and Scientific Virtues: Maxwell, Eddington, and Persistence