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Elizabeth Potter is the Alice Andrews Quigley Professor of
Women's Studies at Mills College. She is co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies and author of numerous articles in feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science.
Sommario
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Intersection of Gender and Science: Now We See It. Now We Don't.
1. Now We See It
2. Now We Don't
Part II: Boyle's Work in Context
1. Economics, Politics and Religion: Stuart Conflicts With Parliament
2. Civil War Approaches
3. The Intersection of Class and Gender Politics
4. The Boyle Family's Religious and Class Politics
5. More Class and Gender Politics
6. Boyle's Gender Politics
7. Boyle's Background Reading
8. Boyle's Hermeticism, Magic and Active Principles
9. Hermeticism, Hylozooism and Radical Politics
10. Boyle's Concern Over the Sectaries
11. Boyle's Objections to Hylozooism
12. Experimental Support for the Corpuscular Philosophy
13. Boyle's Law of Gases
14. The Production of An Alternative Law
15. Methodological Considerations
16. "The Data Alone Proved Boyle's Hypothesis"
17. Good Science
Conclusion
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Elizabeth Potter is the Alice Andrews Quigley Professor of
Women's Studies at Mills College. She is co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies and author of numerous articles in feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science.
Riassunto
Re-examines the assumptions and experimental evidence behind Boyle's Law. The author argues that even good science is sometimes influenced by gender and class politics, and she shows that this work leading to the Gas Law, while certainly based on the experimental evidence, was also based on class and gendered considerations.
