Ideology and the history of science
Biology and Philosophy 8 (1):103-108 (1993)
| Abstract | discipline a general science of our "intellectual faculties, their principal phenomena, and the more remarkable circumstances of their activities" (1801, p. 4). Convinced of the sensationalist epistemology of Locke and Condillac, Destutt de Tracy believed one could resolve all ideas into the sensations that produced them and thereby test their soundness. The sensationalist assumptions of his project led him to propose that "ideology is a part of zoology" (1801, p. 1), and he consequently paid close attention to the way physiological.. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,679 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesAram Vartanian (1981). A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of "Ideology". Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (4):512-515.
Gordon Graham (1986). Politics in its Place: A Study of Six Ideologies. Oxford University Press.
Peter J. Bowler (1993). A Response to Robert J. Richards, “Ideology and the History of Science”. Biology and Philosophy 8 (1):109-110.
Ian Adams (1989). The Logic of Political Belief: A Philosophical Analysis of Ideology. Barnes & Noble Books.
Anna-K. Mayer (2004). Setting Up a Discipline, II: British History of Science and “the End of Ideology”, 1931–1948. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (1):41-72.
Gayil Talshir (2005). The Phoenix of Ideology. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 (2):107-124.
Brian Head (1985). Ideology and Social Science: Destutt De Tracy and French Liberalism. Distributors for the U.S. And Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Analytics
Monthly downloads
Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
|
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads5 ( #160,368 of 549,078 )Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
