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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

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I. The history of ideas about the external order of nature studied by the physical and biological sciences, ideas also present in common usage, imaginative literature, myths about nature, metaphysical speculation.

II. The history of ideas about human nature in anthropology, psychology, religion, and philosophy as well as in literature and common sense.

III. The history of ideas in literature and the arts in aesthetic theory and literary criticism.

IV. The history of ideas about or attitudes to history, historiography, and historical criticism.

V. The historical development of economic, legal, and political ideas and institutions, ideologies, and movements.

VI. The history of religious and philosophical ideas.

VII. The history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic, and methodological ideas.

LIST OF ARTICLES

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ABSTRACTION IN THE FORMATION OF CONCEPTS

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ACADEMIC FREEDOM

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ALIENATION IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

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ALIENATION IN HEGELAND MARX

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ALLEGORY INLITERARY HISTORY

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AMBIGUITY ASAESTHETIC PRINCIPLE

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ANALOGY INEARLY GREEK THOUGHT

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ANALOGY IN PATRISTICAND MEDIEVAL THOUGHT

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ANALOGY OF THEBODY POLITIC

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ANCIENTS AND MODERNS INTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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ANTHROPOMORPHISMIN SCIENCE

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ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON

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APPEARANCE AND REALITY

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ART FOR ART'S SAKE

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ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS

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ATOMISM: ANTIQUITY TO THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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ATOMISM IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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BALANCE OF POWER

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BAROQUE IN LITERATURE

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THEORIES OF BEAUTY TOTHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

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THEORIES OF BEAUTY SINCETHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

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BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONSIN ANTIQUITY

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BIOLOGICAL HOMOLOGIESAND ANALOGIES

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BIOLOGICAL MODELS

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CAUSATION IN HISTORY

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CAUSATION INISLAMIC THOUGHT

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CAUSATION IN LAW

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CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY, FINAL CAUSES

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CERTAINTY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT

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CERTAINTY SINCE THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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CHINA IN WESTERN THOUGHTAND CULTURE

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CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY

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CHURCH AS ANINSTITUTION

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MODERNISM IN THECHRISTIAN CHURCH

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

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CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE

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CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS

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CLASSIFICATION OFTHE SCIENCES

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SENSE OF THE COMIC

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CONSERVATION OFNATURAL RESOURCES

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CONSTITUTIONALISM

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CONTINUITY ANDDISCONTINUITY IN NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE

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COSMOLOGY FROMANTIQUITY TO 1850

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COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850

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CREATION IN RELIGION

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CREATIVITY IN ART

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CRISIS IN HISTORY

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LITERARY CRITICISM

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CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTIN ANTIQUITY

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CULTURE AND CIVILIZATIONIN MODERN TIMES

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DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

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DESIGN ARGUMENT

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I. The history of ideas about the external order of nature studied by the physical and biological sciences, ideas also present in common usage, imaginative literature, myths about nature, metaphysical speculation.

Alchemy	Genetic Continuity
Astrology	Health and Disease
Atomism: Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century	Indeterminacy in Physics
Atomism in the Seventeenth Century	Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Lamarckian)
Biological Conceptions in Antiquity	Inheritance through Pangenesis
Biological Homologies and Analogies	Longevity
Biological Models	Changing Concepts of Matter from Antiquity to Newton
Conservation of Natural Resources	Nature
Cosmic Images	Newton and the Method of Analysis
Cosmic Voyages	Optics and Vision
Cosmology from Antiquity to 1850	Orgranicism
Cosmology since 1850	Recapitulation
Entropy	Relativity
Environment	Space
Environment and Culture	Spontaneous Generation
Evolutionism	Technology
Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages	Time and Measurement
	Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism

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