History and the disciplines : the reclassification of knowledge in early modern Europe

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Part 1 The problem of knowledge: the problem of knowledge and the concept of discipline, Donald R. Kelley Bodin, Montaigne and the role of disciplinary boundaries, Ann Blair the library as instrument of discovery - Gabriel Naude and the uses of history, Paul Nelles. Part 2 Philosophy and history: Thales Philosophus - the beginning of philosophy as a discipline, Constance Blackwell eclecticism and the history of philosophy, Ulrich Schneider Gundling vs Buddaeus - competing models of the history of philosophy, Martin Mulsow no discipline, no history - the case of moral philosophy, J.B. Schneewind Vico and the barbarism of reflection - Emory University, Donald P. Verene. Part 3 The human sciences: an antiquary between philology and history - Peircesc and the Samaritans, Peter Miller musical scholarship in Renaissance Italy, Ann Moyer natural law and history - Pufendorf's philosophical historiography, Michael Seidler 18th-century anthropology and the History of Mankind, Anthony Pagden Francis Bacon and the reform of natural history in the 17th century, Paula Findlen from apotheosis of analysis - some late-Renaissance histories of classical astronomy, Anthony Grafton legitimizing a discipline - James Mackenzie's History of Health (1758), Heikki Mikkeli the mantle of Mueller and the ghost of Goethe - interactions between the sciences and their histories, Nicholas Jardine gender in Early Modern science, Londa Schiebinger.

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