This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. This volume examines the development of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences.
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.
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. 59
2. William Jevons, The Principles of Science (1877), 2nd ed., pp. viixii,
265269, 551553
Part 2: Statistics in Biology
3. Francis Galton, Natural Inheritance (1889), pp. 6370, 192198
4. Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 2nd ed. (1900), pp. 372375,
402408
5. William Bateson, Heredity, Differentiation, and Other Conceptions of
Biology: A Consideration of Professor Karl Pearsons Paper On the Principle
of Homotyposis, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69 (1901),
pp. 193205
Part 3: The Social Sciences
6. Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, Vol. I, 3rd ed. (1887 [ 1876]),
pp. 323, 3439
7. Agnes Sinclair Holbrook, Map Notes and Comments, in Jane Addams and
Residents of Hull House, Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895), pp. 314
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. 123
9. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record (1895), pp. 715
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. 117146
11. Ernst Mach, On Physiological as Distinguished from Geometrical Space,
The Monist, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1901), pp. 321338
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. 291294, 350369
13. William James, Lecture 1, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902),
pp. 125
14. J. M. Cattell, Mental Tests and Measurements, Mind, Vol. 15, No. 59
(1890), pp. 373381
15. E. B. Titchener, Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice
(1901), Vol. 1, pp. xiiixviii, Vol. 2, pp. xixxl
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Charles H. Pence is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society (CEFISES) at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
