Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assembling the Science of the Future: Epistemic Virtures in the Exact Sciences, Physiology and Literature of Post-Enlightenment France (1780-1840)

博士论文研究：集合未来的科学：后启蒙运动法国（1780-1840）精确科学、生理学和文学中的认知美德

• 批准号: 1257330
• 负责人: Michael Lucey
• 金额: $ 1.13万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1257330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Assembling; Science

IntroductionThis award is a doctoral dissertation improvement grant. It supports research on the history of scientific and literary work in post-Enlightenment France with a focus on the normative conditions for acquiring knowledge that emerged as science and creative writing evolved into separate, autonomous pursuits. In particular, the award funds archival research on the letters of Pierre-Simon Laplace and manuscripts of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Archival research will serve to reveal their strategies for developing and promoting criteria for knowledge associated with the exact sciences and physiology. Intellectual MeritThe works and correspondence of these two major scientists and public figures have not received due attention. These documents are pertinent to understanding the contentious character of the dispute involved in the process of mutual definition that made referring to literature and science as distinct fields possible in France. The project aims to show that the emergence of separate scientific and literary fields characteristic of modernity came at the price of networks that spanned an integrated cultural space. The project will involve methodological and theoretical innovations that facilitate relating both scientific and literary texts, and history of science and science studies methods in new ways.Broader Impact.The theoretical and methodological innovations to be implemented in this project should be applicable to a range of other historical contexts where the dynamics organizing competition and innovation are weak, decentralized or in flux. In addition to planned publications in professional journals, this innovative approach will be the subject of two academic seminars at UC-Berkeley, one focused on methodological concerns for discussion with literary and history of science scholars from Berkeley, and the other on integrating primary and secondary history of science texts into undergraduate curricula.

该奖项是一个博士论文改进补助金。它支持对科学和文学作品的历史研究在后启蒙时代的法国，重点是规范的条件，为获得知识出现的科学和创造性写作演变成单独的，自主的追求。特别是，该奖项资助对皮埃尔-西蒙拉普拉斯的信件和艾蒂安·若弗鲁瓦·圣伊莱尔手稿的档案研究。档案研究将有助于揭示他们的战略，发展和促进与精确科学和生理学相关的知识标准。这两位科学家和公众人物的著作和通信都没有得到应有的重视。这些文件有助于理解在相互定义过程中所涉及的争议的争议性质，这使得在法国将文学和科学视为不同的领域成为可能。该项目旨在表明，现代性所特有的独立的科学和文学领域的出现是以跨越一个完整的文化空间的网络为代价的。该项目将涉及方法和理论创新，以促进科学和文学文本，科学史和科学研究方法以新的方式相关联。更广泛的影响：本项目中实施的理论和方法创新应适用于组织竞争和创新的动力较弱，分散或不断变化的一系列其他历史背景。除了计划在专业期刊上发表，这种创新的方法将在加州大学伯克利分校的两个学术研讨会的主题，一个侧重于方法论的关注与文学和科学史的学者从伯克利分校的讨论，另一个整合到本科课程的科学文本的小学和中学的历史。