The philosophy of science as it is known today emerged out of a combination of three traditional concerns: the classification of the sciences, methodology and the philosophy of nature. Included in the series "Works in the Philosophy of Science 1830-1914" are all three of these interrelated areas. The titles should be of interest to both the philosopher of science and to the historian of ideas. The former will be able to trace present-day concerns back to their origins; the latter should find it a useful source for the study of Victorian conceptions of science. Best known as the common-law husband of George Eliot, George Henry Lewes as a popularizer of science, as demonstrated in this, one of his earlier works. It provides a lucid exposition of Comte's views about the classification of the sciences and the supposedly inevitable tendency of metaphysics to give way to "positive" science.
- ISBN10 1855067544
- ISBN13 9781855067547
- Publish Date 1 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
- Edition Facsimile of 1853 ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 369
- Language English