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

本奖项为博士论文改进资助。它支持对启蒙运动后法国科学和文学作品历史的研究，重点关注获取知识的规范条件，这些知识是随着科学和创造性写作演变成独立的、自主的追求而出现的。该奖项特别资助了对皮埃尔-西蒙·拉普拉斯的信件和Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire手稿的档案研究。档案研究将有助于揭示他们制定和促进与精确科学和生理学有关的知识标准的战略。这两位主要科学家和公众人物的著作和通信没有得到应有的重视。这些文件与理解相互定义过程中涉及的争议的争议性有关，这使得文学和科学在法国可能成为不同的领域。该项目旨在展示具有现代性特征的独立科学和文学领域的出现是以跨越综合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以及科学史和科学研究方法的新方法的联系。更广泛的影响。在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薄弱、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之外，这一创新方法还将成为加州大学伯克利分校两场学术研讨会的主题，其中一场侧重于与伯克利的文学和科学史学者讨论方法论问题，另一场侧重于将中小学科学史文本整合到本科课程中。

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.