Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chemla, Karine (Editor), Virbel, Jacques (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 42
• Subjects: History.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Language.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute or conditional statements, fo...