Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The model of controversy spaces
5. chapter 1. Controversy spaces 9
6. Part II. Controversy spaces in the history of philosophy
7. chapter 2. Historiographic refocalization and change in the historicity regime 29
8. chapter 3. A brief history of supervenience in the controversy space of recent philosophy of mind 57
9. Part III. Controversy spaces in the history of science
10. chapter 4. The problem of irreversibility, from Fourier to Chaos theory 77
11. chapter 5. The relation between Chemistry and Physics 103
12. chapter 6. Jacques Rohault’s system of natural philosophy 123
13. chapter 7. How DNA became an important molecule 135
14. chapter 8. The development of 20th-century American linguistics as a controversy space 163
15. Contributors 183
16. Author index 185
17. Subject index 187