Overview
- Offers an entirely new approach to scholarly sources based on linguistic theories
- Represents a fruitful approach to history of science and Text Act Theory
- Combines a general and innovative methodology in the History of Science with specific case studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 42)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Speech acts and Textual acts
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Enumerations as Textual acts
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Karine Chemla is currently Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, in the research group SPHERE (Science—Philosophy—History). Her interest is in the history of mathematics in ancient China within the context of a world history. She also researches modern European mathematics. In both cases, she focuses from a historical anthropology viewpoint, on the relationship between mathematics and the various epistemological cultures in the context of which it is practiced and cultivated. Chemla is more widely interested in the theoretical challenges ancient mathematics raise for history of science. She conducts theoretical work on, for example, algorithms, mathematical proofs, the historians’ sources and notions such as “practice” and “cultures.” Chemla published, with Guo Shuchun, Les neuf chapitres (2004) and edited The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions (2012). Since 2011, with Agathe Keller and Christine Proust, she is the head of the European Research Council project “Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World” (SAW). Jacques Virbel, now retired, has served between 1975 and 1981 as vice-director of the Laboratoire d’Informatique pour les Sciences de l’Homme (Laboratory for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences). Between 1990 and 2005, he was a member of the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research). He has been the head of the multidisciplinary workshop “Text and Communication” (1989-2000) and of the “Cognitive Science Research Program” in Toulouse (1999-2002).
Virbel has been active for forty years in information analysis and retrieval, linguistics, and pragmatics. His publications and other works focus on natural language processing and information management, text analysis and modeling in social sciences and the Humanities (archeology, history, architecture, literature, neuropsycholinguistics), text linguistics, speech acttheory, and visual semantics aspects of text architectures, application of text linguistics to text-to-speech engine for blind users of textual data, and design of psychology experiments using texts. Virbel is currently writing about an extension of speech act theory to written units larger than simple oral sentences (i.e.: texts).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science
Editors: Karine Chemla, Jacques Virbel
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16444-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16443-4Published: 24 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36673-9Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16444-1Published: 15 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 430
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, Philosophy of Language, Regional and Cultural Studies