The Sociology of Philosophies

The social construction of science does not undermine scientific truths. In- tellectual networks are part of the time-space phys ...

case of the high-prestige wing of contemporary intellectuals, the scientists. Sociologists of science have stripped away the ide ...

the law of small numbers dividing the attention space motivates creativity, sometimes of genuinely new positions, by negating ke ...

sequence of splitting realities. Deep troubles are discovered by the network, not merely contrived; they are obdurate and unmall ...

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APPENDIX 1 £ 1. The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity Contemporaneous Creativity The typical pattern throughout world net ...

Mo Ti, who branches off from one of these Confucian schools another generation later, was building intellectually upon his oppos ...

around 1 c.e. (Fung, 1952–53: 2:133–167). But Wang Ch’ung lacks an impor- tant contemporary rival on the occultist side. Here we ...

porary creativity with lists of major or secondary philosophers who are vertical isolates from significant master-pupil chains: ...

sophical contemporaries other than the secondary figure Miskawayh, but he is matched with scientific stars, and his own work is ...

work isolates at this level of eminence: only 1 of 114, the Tao Te Ching author, and even in this case, as indicated, a plausibl ...

almost no one who is isolated on both dimensions. In all of world history there are only three significant philosophers who fill ...

APPENDIX 2 £ The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture Historical sources, especially for remote periods, are often fragmenta ...

in the midst of what network ties, and how did the work get put into circula- tion? Who wrote the Mohist Canons, and what precis ...

the Chuang Tzu, we could assign them a portion of the reputation which has accrued instead for the book. Still, we must ask ours ...

893 APPENDIX 3 £ 3. Keys to Figures The following abbreviations are used throughout this appendix (see special notation listed f ...

Figure 2.1. Network of Chinese Philosophers, 400–200 b.c.e. 10 Tzu-yu (f. school of Confucian disciples) 11 Tzu-chang (f. school ...

10 Democedes of Croton (medicine) i 11 Ameinas (Pythagorean) 500 c.e. 12 Epicharmas 13 Hippasus (Pythagorean) (14) Hecataeus (ge ...

i 68 Pamphilus (Academic) i 69 Spintharus 70 Nicharchus (medicine)  71 Praxagoras (medicine, Cos)  72 Aristoxenus (Aristotelea ...

Figure 3.5. Realignment of Schools in the Roman Conquest, 200 b.c.e.–1 c.e. 200 b.c.e. 126 Basilides (Epicurean scholarch) 127 Z ...