Chapter ID: CBB001422052

The Conduct of Belief: Agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the Formation of Intellectual Communities (2014)

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White, Paul (Author)


Pages: 220-241
Publication date: 2014
Language: English


Description Considers the Metaphysical Society which formed to debate a variety of beliefs relating to the relationship between science and religion.


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Authors & Contributors
Lightman, Bernard V.
Barton, Ruth
Dawson, Gowan
England, Richard K.
Flaherty, Niall O'
Gondermann, Thomas
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
History of Science
Journal of the History of Ideas
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Spontaneous Generations
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Thoemmes
University of Toronto Press
Concepts
Science and religion
Atheism; agnosticism; irreligion
Controversies and disputes
Evolution
Darwinism
Naturalism (philosophy)
People
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Tyndall, John
Wilberforce, Samuel
Darwin, Charles Robert
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Institutions
British Association for the Advancement of Science
X-Club
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