Excerpt from GENE515
This partly answers a question asked of me when I was 21 years old, by my doctoral thesis advisor Oliver G. Selfridge. When I say "Man" I am echoing and older text, and not excluding Woman.
Excerpt from GENE515What is Man, that he may know Number? What is Number that it may be known by Man ( Read more... )
Excerpt from GENE515What is Man, that he may know Number? What is Number that it may be known by Man ( Read more... )
Between 1835 and 1861 Whewell produced various works on the philosophy of morals and politics, the chief of which, Elements of Morality, including Polity, was published in 1845. The peculiarity of this work--written, of course, from what is known as the intuitional point of view--is its fivefold division of the springs of action and of their objects, of the primary and universal rights of man (personal security, property, contract, family rights and government), and of the cardinal virtues (benevolence, justice, truth, purity and order). Among Whewell's other works--too numerous to mention--were popular writings such as the 3rd Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology (1833), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds (1854), in which he argued against the probability of planetary life, and also to the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers (1850-1861), to the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England (1852), to the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge (1845), to the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli et pads (1853), and to the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow (1860).
He died as a result of a fall from his horse.
Full bibliographical details are given by Isaac Todhunter, W. Whewell: an Account of his Writings (2 vols., 1876). See also Life of W. Whewell, by Mrs Stair Douglas (1881).
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There is a long essay on Whewell as philosopher by Laura J. Snyder
William Whewell from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The omnicompetent Whewell wrote several papers on mathematical economics as well as a set of introductory lectures
Six Lectures from Archive for the History of Economic Thought
The New School entry has some useful links, as well as several that do not work!
William Whewell from History of Economic Thought
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