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History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

Subject Bibliography of Books and Dissertations (ca.1980 - )

Philosophy – Popular Science and Popularization

[Bibliography main page] Philosophy
SUBJECT	CITATION
Philosophy	Caws, Peter, editor. Two Centuries of Philosophy in America. 381pp. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980.
Philosophy	Costello, Thomas Stacy. “The Concept of Science in Pragmatism, 1872-1972.” DAI 43/01 (1982): 105-A. (Doct. diss., State University of New York at Albany, 1982)
Philosophy	De Groot, Jean, editor. Nature in American Philosophy. (Studies in Philosophy and History of Philosophy, 42). 204pp. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Philosophy	Diggins, John P. The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority. 515pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
PHILOSOPHY	Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments. 284pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
PHILOSOPHY	Kuklick, Bruce. A History of Philosophy in America, 1720–2000. 326pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
PHILOSOPHY	Pratt, Scott L. Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy. 316pp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
PHILOSOPHY	Thompson, Paul B. and Thomas C. Hilde, editors. Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy). 342pp. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
Philosophy	Wilson, Daniel J. Science, Community, and the Transformation of American Philosophy, 1860-1930. 228pp. Chicago / London: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Philosophy: Biographical	Almeder, Robert F. The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical Introduction. 205pp. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
Philosophy: Biographical	Apel, Karl-Otto. Charles Sanders Peirce: From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism. Translated by John Michael Krois. 253pp. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.
Philosophy: Biographical	Bandas, Mark D. “Peirce’s Defense of the Scientific Method of Inquiry.” DAI 46/08 (1986): 2317-A. (Doct. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1985)
Philosophy: Biographical	Bird, Graham. William James. (The Arguments of the Philosophers). 221pp. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Philosophy: Biographical	Bjork, Daniel W. William James: The Center of His Vision. 313pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Philosophy: Biographical	Bordogna, Francesca M. “The Scientific Contexts of William James’ Pragmatist Epistemology.” 292pp. DAI 59/11 (1999): 4163-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 1998)
Philosophy: Biographical	Brent, Joseph. Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life. 388pp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Philosophy: Biographical	Bruce, Marcus C. “The Unfinished Universe: William James, Pragmatism, and the American Intellectual.” DAI 51/08 (1991): 2787-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1990)
Philosophy: Biographical	Cook, Gary A. George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatist. 231pp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Philosophy: Biographical	Cook, James E. “Chance and Rationality in the Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce.” DAI 39/07 (1979): 4319-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kansas, 1978)
PHILOSOPHY: Biographical	Cooper, Wesley. The Unity of William James’s Thought. 269pp. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Philosophy: Biographical	DeArmey, Michael H. “The Philosophical Anthropology of William James: Towards a Complete Teleological Analysis of the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of Human Beings.” DAI 39/07 (1979): 4320-A. (Doct. diss., Tulane University, 1978)
Philosophy: Biographical	Delaney, C. F. Science, Knowledge and Mind: A Study in the Philosophy of C. S. Peirce. 183pp. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
Philosophy: Biographical	Deledalle, Gerard. Charles S. Peirce: An Intellectual Biography. Translated from the French and introduced by Susan Petrilli. 91pp. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1990.
PHILOSOPHY: Biographical	Duggan, Michael F. “Chauncey Wright and Forward-Looking Empiricism.” DAI 63/05 (2002): 1964-A. (Doct. diss., Georgetown University, 2002)
Philosophy: Biographical	Eisele, Carolyn, editor. Historical Perspectives on Peirce’s Logic of Science: A History of Science. 2 vols. (1131pp.). Berlin / New York / Amsterdam: Mouton (distributed in U.S. by Walter de Gruyter, Hawthorne, New York), 1985. (Selected writings and letters of Charles S. Peirce)
Philosophy: Biographical	Eisele, Carolyn. Studies in the Scientific and Mathematical Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: Essays by Carolyn Eisele. Edited by R. M. Martin. (Studies in Philosophy, 29). 386pp. The Hague / Paris / New York: Mouton Publishers, 1979.
Philosophy: Biographical	Feinstein, Howard M. Becoming William James. 377pp. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.
PHILOSOPHY: Biographical	Fernandez De Barrena Marchena, Sara Elena. "La creatividad en Charles S. Peirce: Abduccion y razonabilidad" (“Creativity in Charles S. Peirce: Abduction and Reasonableness”). DAI 66/01 (2005): 28-C. (Doct. diss., Universidad de Navarra, 2003) (in Spanish)
Philosophy: Biographical	Fisch, Max H. Peirce, Semeiotic, and Pragmatism: Essays by Max H. Fisch. Edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner and Christian J. W. Kloessel. 464pp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Philosophy: Biographical	Gale, Richard M. The Divided Self of William James. 364pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
PHILOSOPHY: Biographical	Grossman, Joan and Ruth Rischin, editors. William James in Russian Culture. 259pp. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003.
Philosophy: Biographical	Hausman, Carl R. Charles S. Peirce’s Evolutionary Philosophy. 230pp. Cambridge [England] / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Philosophy: Biographical	Henderson, Harold. Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Carus of Open Court. 205pp. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Philosophy: Biographical	Hickman, Larry A. John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology. (Indiana Series in Philosophy of Technology). 234pp. Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Philosophy: Biographical	Hoeveler, J. David, Jr. James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition: From Glasgow to Princeton. 374pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Philosophy: Biographical	Houser, Nathan, Don D. Roberts, and James Van Evra, editors. Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce. 653 pp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1997.
Philosophy: Biographical	Jones, William Frank. Nature and Natural Science: The Philosophy of Frederick J. E. Woodbridge. 197pp. Buffalo, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983.
Philosophy: Biographical	Ketner, Kenneth Laine and James Edward Cook. Graduate Studies at Texas Tech University: Charles Sanders Peirce: Contributions to THE NATION Part Three: 1901-1908. 306pp. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Press, 1979.
Philosophy: Biographical	Ketner, Kenneth Laine and others. Proceedings of the C. S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress. Held at Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, 26-28 June 1976. (Graduate Studies Texas Tech University, 23). 400pp. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1981.
Philosophy: Biographical	Ketner, Kenneth Laine, editor. His Glassy Essence: An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce. (The Vanderbilt library of American philosophy). 416pp. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, c1998.
Philosophy: Biographical	Ketner, Kenneth Laine, editor. Peirce and Contemporary Thought: Philosophical Inquiries. (American Philosophy Series, no. 1). 444pp. New York: Fordham University Press, 1995.
Philosophy: Biographical	Ketner, Kenneth Laine. A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles Sanders Peirce, with a Bibliography of Secondary Studies. 2nd ed., rev. 337pp. Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University, 1986.
Philosophy: Biographical	Lowy, Richard F. “George Herbert Mead: Evolutionary Naturalism, the Act, Science, and Social Reform.” DAI 46/01 (1985): 281-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Riverside, 1984)
Philosophy: Biographical	Moore, Edward C., editor. Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science: Papers from the Harvard Sesquicentennial Congress. 424pp. Tuscaloosa / London: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
Philosophy: Biographical	Myers, Gerald E. William James: His Life and Thought. 628pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Philosophy: Biographical	Nlandu, Tamba. “Reality, Perceptual Experience, and Cognition: A Study in Charles Sanders Peirce’s Philosophy of Mind.” DAI 58/05 (1997): 1750-A. (Doct. diss., Tulane University, 1997)
Philosophy: Biographical	Peirce, Charles S. Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898. Edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner. 297pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Philosophy: Biographical	Peirce, Charles S. The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Edited by Nathan Houser and Christian J. W. Kloesel. 2 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992, 1998.
Philosophy: Biographical	Peirce, Charles S. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition. Edited by Max H. Fisch, Christian J. W. Kloesel and others. <6> vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982-<2000>. (6 vols. to 2000 cover 1857-1890)
Philosophy: Biographical	Potter, Vincent G. Peirce’s Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by Vincent Michael Colapietro. (American philosophy series; no. 3). 212pp. Bronx, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 1996.
Philosophy: Biographical	Putnam, Ruth Anna, editor. The Cambridge Companion to William James. 406pp. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
PHILOSOPHY: Biographical	Reynolds, Andrew. Peirce’s Scientific Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Chance, Law and Evolution. 228pp. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Philosophy: Biographical	Ruf, Frederick J. The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly World. (SUNY Series in Rhetoric and Theology). 185pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Philosophy: Biographical	Scott, Frederick J. Down, editor. William James: Selected Unpublished Correspondence, 1885-1910. 603pp. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1986.
Philosophy: Biographical	Shin, Sun-Joo. The Iconic Logic of Peirce’s Graphs. (A Bradford Book). 208pp. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
Philosophy: Biographical	Simon, Linda. Genuine Reality: A Life of William James. 467pp. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
PHILOSOPHY: Biographical	Spencer, Mark G., editor. Hume’s Reception in Early America. 2 vols. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes, 2002.
Philosophy: Biographical	Sprigge, Timothy L. S. James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality. 630pp. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court, 1993. (Regarding William James and F. H. Bradley)
Philosophy: Biographical	Stewart, William C. “Social and Economic Aspects of Charles Sanders Peirce’s Conception of Science.” DAI 53/04 (1992): 1177-A. (Doct. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1992)
Philosophy: Biographical	Turrisi, Patricia A. “Charles S. Peirce’s Evolutionary Metaphysics: The Growth of Reasonableness in Nature, Mind and Science.” DAI 47/04 (1986): 1358-A. (Doct. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1986)
Philosophy: Biographical	Tursman, Richard. Peirce’s Theory of Scientific Discovery: A System of Logic Conceived as Semiotic. (Peirce Studies, 3). 160pp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Philosophy: Biographical	VanSertima, Wayne M. “The Sociality of Becoming: George Herbert Mead’s Physics and Metaphysics.” DAI 59/01 (1998): 346-A. (Doct. diss., City University of New York, 1998)
PHILOSOPHY: Institutional	Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. 546pp. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Philosophy: Sources (archival)	James, William. The Correspondence of William James. Edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley, with others. vol. 1-. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992-.
[Bibliography main page] Photography
SUBJECT	CITATION
PHOTOGRAPHY	Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929. 334pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2005.
PHOTOGRAPHY	Brown, Julie K. Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900. 192pp. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Photography	Jenkins, Reese V. Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925. 371pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Photography: Biographical	Brayer, Elizabeth. George Eastman: A Biography. 637 pp., [48] pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Institutional	West, Nancy Martha. Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia. (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture). 242pp. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
[Bibliography main page] Physical Sciences (General)
SUBJECT	CITATION
Physical sciences (general): Biographical	Brooke, George M., Jr. John M. Brooke, Naval Scientist and Educator. 372pp. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.
[Bibliography main page] Physics
SUBJECT	CITATION
Physics	Fudano, Jun. “Early X-Ray Research at Physical Laboratories in the United States of America, circa 1900: A Reappraisal of American Physics.” DAI 51/03 (1990): 981-A. (Doct. Diss., University of Oklahoma, 1990)
Physics	Moyer, Albert E. American Physics in Transition: Conceptual Changes in the Late Nineteenth Century. (The History of Modern Physics, 1800-1950, vol. 3). 218pp. Los Angeles, Calif.: Tomash Publishers, 1983.
PHYSICS: Biographical	Barus, Carl. One of the 999 about to Be Forgotten: Memoirs of Carl Barus, 1865-1935. Selected and edited by Axel W. O. Schmidt. 317pp. New York: AWOS, 2005. (Autobiography of Brown University physicist)
Physics: Biographical	Brown, Sanborn C. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford 361pp. Cambridge / London: MIT Press, 1979.
Physics: Biographical	Cahan, David and M. Eugene Rudd. Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. 209pp. Lincoln, Neb. and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Physics: Biographical	Goldberg, Stanley and Roger H. Stuewer, editors. The Michelson Era in American Science, 1870-1930. (AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 179). 300pp. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1988. (Based on a conference, Cleveland, Ohio, October 1987)
Physics: Biographical	Khatib, Ghassan K. “Change of Phase: The Transformation of 19th-Century Thermodynamics: Josiah Willard Gibbs (1873-1878).” DAI 53/09 (1993): 3348-A. (Doct. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1992)
PHYSICS: Biographical	Mickens, Ronald E., editor. Edward Bouchet: The First African-American Doctorate. 134pp. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2002. (Bouchet earned a doctoral degree in physics from Yale, 1876)
Physics: Biographical	Molella, Arthur P. and others, editors. A Scientist in American Life: The Essays and Lectures of Joseph Henry. 136pp. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
Physics: Biographical	Moyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. 348pp. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Physics: Biographical	Rubinger, Richard, editor. An American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall. (Asian Studies at Hawaii, no. 35). 89pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
Physics: Biographical	Sweetnam, George Kean. “The Command of Light: Rowland’s School of Physics and the Spectrum.” DAI 57/09 (1997): 4094-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1996)
Physics: Biographical	Sweetnam, George Kean. The Command of Light: Rowland’s School of Physics and the Spectrum. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 238). 233pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000.
Physics: Sources	Stroke, H. Henry, editor. The PHYSICAL REVIEW--The First Hundred Years: A Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries. 1266pp. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.). New York: American Institute of Physics; College Park, Md: American Physical Society, 1995.
Physics: Sources (archival)	Henry, Joseph. The Papers of Joseph Henry. Edited by Nathan Reingold, Marc Rothenberg, and others. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972-.
[Bibliography main page] Physiology
SUBJECT	CITATION
Physiology	Fye, W. Bruce. The Development of American Physiology: Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. (Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine). 308pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Physiology	Geison, Gerald L., editor. Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940. 403pp. Bethesda, Md.: American Physiological Society, 1987.
Physiology	Phillips, John L. The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving, and Engineering. 260pp. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Physiology: Biographical	Aminoff, Michael J. Brown-Sequard: A Visionary of Science. 211pp. New York: Raven Press, 1993.
Physiology: Biographical	Horsman, Reginald. Frontier Doctor: William Beaumont, America’s First Great Medical Scientist. (Missouri biography series). 320 pp. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c1996.
Physiology: Biographical	Pitcock, Cynthia D. “The Career of William Beaumont, 1785-1853: Science and the Self-Made Man in America.” DAI 47/01 (1986): 292-A. (Doct. diss., Memphis State University, 1985)
Physiology: Institutional	Brobeck, John, Orr E. Reynolds and Toby A. Appel, editors. History of the American Physiological Society: The First Century, 1887- 1987. 542pp. Bethesda, Md.: American Physiological Society, 1988.
Physiology: Michigan	Davenport, Horace W. Physiology, 1850-1923: The View from Michigan. 104pp. Bethesda, Md.: American Physiological Society, February 1982. (Issued as supplement to: The Physiologist)
[Bibliography main page] Politics and Public Policy (Relations to Science)
SUBJECT	CITATION
Politics and public policy (relations to science)	Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison. 368pp. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
Politics and public policy (relations to science)	Holland, Catherine Alsie. “The Body Politic: Nature, Politics, and the Body in American Political Culture, 1776-1875.” DAI 57/02 (1996): 843-A. (Doct. diss., New School for Social Research, 1996)
POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	Masur, Louis P. 1831: Year of Eclipse. 247pp. New York: Hill & Wang, 2001.
POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY (RELATIONS TO SCIENCE)	McGrath, Patrick J. Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960. 248pp. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Politics and public policy (relations to science): Biographical	Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson and Science: Exhibition Catalogue. [15]pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.
Politics and public policy (relations to science): Biographical	Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science. 616pp. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1990.
Politics and public policy (relations to science): Biographical	Coppin, Clayton A. and Jack C. High. The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy. 219pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Politics and public policy (relations to science): Biographical	Mitchill, Samuel L. A Discourse on the Character and Services of Thomas Jefferson, More Especially as a Promoter of Natural and Physical Science. 67pp. Charlottesville, Va.: Division of Humanities, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, 1982. (Facsimile reprint of an 1826 essay with a new introduction by O.A. Gianniny, Jr.)
Politics and public policy (relations to science): California	Powers, Judith L. “The Absence of Conspiracy: The Effects of Urban Technology on Public Policy in Los Angeles, 1850-1930.” DAI 42/05 (1981): 2290-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Los Angeles, 1981)
[Bibliography main page] Popular Science and Popularization
SUBJECT	CITATION
Popular science and popularization	Burnham, John C. How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularizing Science and Health in the United States. 369pp. New Brunswick, N.J. / London: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Popular science and popularization	Ersoz, Meryem. “American Magic, American Technology: Visual Culture and Popular Science in the Machine Age.” DAI 58/07 (1998): 2651-A. (Doct. diss., University of Oregon, 1997)
POPULAR SCIENCE AND POPULARIZATION	Thurs, Daniel Patrick. “Science in Popular Culture: Contested Meanings and Cultural Authority in America, 1832-1994.” DAI 65/04 (2004): 1515-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, 2004)