In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and V...

Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultu...

In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and V...

Originally published in 1987. Bernard Lightman provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its...

Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, produc...

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the C...

Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, produc...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discuss...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discuss...

This edition contains the 95 papers delivered during the meetings of the Metaphysical Society (18...

Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a neces...

The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural kno...

The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in...

Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology o...

The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for...

Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulat...

The specialization thesis--the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate form...