Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2025
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236 pages
978-1-032-20493-2 (ISBN)
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of quantified, statistical social science came into being. Such innovations were quickly marshaled for use in the life sciences, from evolution to agriculture to eugenics. This title will be of great interest to students of the history of philosophy and the history of science.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences
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Charles H. Pence
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences
E-Book
09/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€73.99
Available for download
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Dr. Charles H. Pence is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society (CEFISES) at the Universite catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Content
Volume 3: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social, and Human Sciences
General Introduction
Volume 3 Introduction
Part 1: Statistical Methodology
1. Adolphe Quetelet, "On Man", A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1835 [tr. 1842]), pp. 5-9
2. William Jevons, The Principles of Science (1877), 2nd ed., pp. vii-xii, 265-269, 551-553
Part 2: Statistics in Biology
3. Francis Galton, Natural Inheritance (1889), pp. 63-70, 192-198
4. Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 2nd ed. (1900), pp. 372-375, 402-408
5. William Bateson, "Heredity, Differentiation, and Other Conceptions of Biology: A Consideration of Professor Karl Pearson's Paper 'On the Principle of Homotyposis'," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69 (1901), pp. 193-205
Part 3: The Social Sciences
6. Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, Vol. I, 3rd ed. (1887 [1876]), pp. 3-23, 34-39
7. Agnes Sinclair Holbrook, "Map Notes and Comments", in Jane Addams and Residents of Hull House, Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895), pp. 3-14
8. W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Study of the Negro Problems", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 11 (1898), pp. 1-23
9. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record (1895), pp. 7-15
Part 4: Physiology and Perception
10. Hermann von Helmholtz, "The Facts in Perception", in Hermann von Helmholtz, Epistemological Writings, trans. Paul Hertz and Moritz Schlick (1878 [tr. 1921]), pp. 117-146
11. Ernst Mach, "On Physiological as Distinguished from Geometrical Space", The Monist, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1901), pp. 321-338
Part 5: Method in Psychology
12.Herbert Spencer, "Life and Mind as Correspondence" and "The Correspondence as Increasing in Generality", The Principles of Psychology, 2nd ed. (1873), pp. 291-294, 350-369
13. William James, Lecture 1, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), pp. 1-25
14. J. M. Cattell, "Mental Tests and Measurements", Mind, Vol. 15, No. 59 (1890), pp. 373-381
15. E. B. Titchener, Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice (1901), Vol. 1, pp. xiii-xviii, Vol. 2, pp. xix-xl
Bibliography
Index
General Introduction
Volume 3 Introduction
Part 1: Statistical Methodology
1. Adolphe Quetelet, "On Man", A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1835 [tr. 1842]), pp. 5-9
2. William Jevons, The Principles of Science (1877), 2nd ed., pp. vii-xii, 265-269, 551-553
Part 2: Statistics in Biology
3. Francis Galton, Natural Inheritance (1889), pp. 63-70, 192-198
4. Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 2nd ed. (1900), pp. 372-375, 402-408
5. William Bateson, "Heredity, Differentiation, and Other Conceptions of Biology: A Consideration of Professor Karl Pearson's Paper 'On the Principle of Homotyposis'," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69 (1901), pp. 193-205
Part 3: The Social Sciences
6. Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, Vol. I, 3rd ed. (1887 [1876]), pp. 3-23, 34-39
7. Agnes Sinclair Holbrook, "Map Notes and Comments", in Jane Addams and Residents of Hull House, Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895), pp. 3-14
8. W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Study of the Negro Problems", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 11 (1898), pp. 1-23
9. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record (1895), pp. 7-15
Part 4: Physiology and Perception
10. Hermann von Helmholtz, "The Facts in Perception", in Hermann von Helmholtz, Epistemological Writings, trans. Paul Hertz and Moritz Schlick (1878 [tr. 1921]), pp. 117-146
11. Ernst Mach, "On Physiological as Distinguished from Geometrical Space", The Monist, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1901), pp. 321-338
Part 5: Method in Psychology
12.Herbert Spencer, "Life and Mind as Correspondence" and "The Correspondence as Increasing in Generality", The Principles of Psychology, 2nd ed. (1873), pp. 291-294, 350-369
13. William James, Lecture 1, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), pp. 1-25
14. J. M. Cattell, "Mental Tests and Measurements", Mind, Vol. 15, No. 59 (1890), pp. 373-381
15. E. B. Titchener, Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice (1901), Vol. 1, pp. xiii-xviii, Vol. 2, pp. xix-xl
Bibliography
Index