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  • History and the Limitations of Scientific Method
  • Helen P. Liebel (bio)
Helen P. Liebel

Helen P. Liebel
Assistant Professor of History, University of Alberta, Edmonton

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1. New York, 1959.

2. Neal W. Gilbert, Renaissance Concepts of Method (New York, 1960), passim.

3. Ibid., 3 ff.

4. Ibid., 11. The Stoics can hardly have been anything but Platonic. The Platonic tradition was stronger in ancient times than the Aristotelian, for most of Aristotle’s systematic scholarly writings remained buried in the library of his school and were not published for centuries, not before the first century B.C. and the first century A.D., in fact. See Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought, The Classic Scholastic and Humanist Strains (New York, 1961), 25–6.

5. Ibid., xv.

6. Daniel Lerner, “Introduction, On Quantity and Quality,” Quantity and Quality, the Hayden Colloquium on Scientific Method and Concept, ed. Daniel Lerner (New York, 1959), 11–12. Hereafter cited as Q&Q.

7. Ibid., 178–9 (footnote 8).

8. Cf. Ibid., 11 ff.

9. For a brief survey of such ideas, see Helen P. Liebel, “Philosophical Idealism in the Historische Zeitschrift, 1859–1914,” History and Theory, III, no. 3, 1–15.

10. John Herman Randall, Jr., Nature and Historical Experience (New York and London, 1959, 1962), 27.

11. Walter A. Rosenblith, “The Quantification of the Electrical Activity of the Nervous System,” Q&Q, 99–100.

12. G. J. Whitrow, The Natural Philosophy of Time (London, 1961), 100, 101, 110.

13. Maurice R. Stein and Arthur J. Vidich, “Identity and History,” Identity and Survival of the Person in Mass Society, ed. Maurice R. Stein et al. (Glencoe, Ill., 1960), 28–30.

14. Lucien Gerschel, “La conquêt du nombre. Des modalités, du compte aux structures de la pensée,” Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, XVII, no. 4 (1962), 691–714.

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