Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination by Stamos, David N. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Sources Chapter 1. Prologue

Entrée Chapter Summaries Discovering Poe Poe’s House of Usher Poe’s Poiesis

Chapter 2. Poe’s Literary Theory

Entrée The Problem Pleasure, Plot, and Unity of Effect Eureka as a “Prose Poem”

Chapter 3. Poe’s Theology

Entrée Poe’s Theology and the Problem of Evil Artistic Sensitivity and Poe’s View of the World The Argument from Beauty The Problem of Pain The Problem of Death Beauty and Hope

Chapter 4. Poe’s Intellectual Background

Entrée Poe’s Formal Education “Pinakidia” The Conchologist’s First Book “A Chapter on Science and Art” The Bridgewater Treatises Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Poe’s Scientific Sources for Eureka Poe’s Criteria of Truth Was Eureka a Hoax?

Chapter 5. The Scientific Anticipations of Eureka

Entrée Rejection of Axioms as Intuitively True Big Bang Cosmogony Fine-Tuning of the Laws of Nature Non-Existence of Laws of Nature Before the Big Bang Olbers’ Paradox Multiverse Theory Space–Time Interdependence Matter–Energy Equivalence No Material Ether

Chapter 6. Imagination in Philosophy and History of Science

Entrée Philosophy of Science in Poe’s Time Logical Positivism Logical Empiricism Karl Popper Thomas Kuhn The New Experimentalism The Disunity of Science Movement Inference to the Best Explanation Epistemic Virtues and Values Evolutionary Epistemology Contextualist History of Science Charles Darwin Albert Einstein Mutation and Imagination, an Analogy

Chapter 7. Poe’s Theory of Scientific Imagination

Entrée Double Consciousness Mesmeric Consciousness Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets Kepler, Champollion, and Humboldt Leibniz, Newton, and Laplace Poe’s “Double Dupin” Against Deduction and Induction The Poetic Intellect

Chapter 8. Epilogue

Entrée Unconscious Scientific Creativity Comparative Biography and Psychology Cognitive Science Neuroscience Evolution Adieu

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