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Record W2418010279 · doi:10.3138/cjh.36.3.453

Postpositivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution

2001· article· en· W2418010279 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
John G. McEvoy

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of History · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Science and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoriographyPositivismHegemonyScientific revolutionHistory of scienceEpistemologyField (mathematics)SociologySocial sciencePhilosophyHistoryLawPolitical sciencePoliticsArchaeology

Abstract

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Expressing the growing interest of historians of science in “the history of science as history,” this study offers a critical account of recent developments in the historiography of the Chemical Revolution. It explores the philosophical and historiographical dimensions of the “postpositivist” (or “theoreticist”) interpretations of the Chemical Revolution, which displaced the positivist-whig historiographical hegemony in the 1960s and 1970s, only to be challenged by the sociology of knowledge in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite its brief ascendancy in the pantheon of interpretive styles, postpositivism had a profound influence on the historiography of the Chemical Revolution, and this study will enable us to better appreciate its complex, variegated, and important results. Besides providing future specialists in the field with useful information, this study is designed to solicit the interest and input of more general historians in the history of science.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.235
Threshold uncertainty score0.708

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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