Objective
The authority of scientists in society has increased to the point where their views dominate decision- making both public and private. The period under consideration, in effect the long nineteenth century, saw the essential steps taken towards this state of affairs.
The increasing success of scientific explanation and invention was essential; but the struggle with the then dominant authority of the Church, and of religious philosophy, was the decisive factor in the change. In this process, scientists came to the fore not only as discoverers of new truths, but as founders and leaders of institutions, and as conscious public representatives and spokesmen for the scientific worldview.
The present Conference project proposes to examine the emergence of the figure of the scientific leader as it emerged in the course of the nineteenth century, from anonymous and low-status toiler to acknowledged leader of a high-profile community. Often this process included the career change from scientific work to the development of new associations, institutions, and of new genres of communication - the pubic lecture, the public debate, the travel description in which scientific results were leavened by personal narrative and illustration, the popular-scientific essay, the general reflections on nature and society - that met the needs of a better educated general public being prepared for political responsibility. The leader took on a variety of functions formerly carried out by other authority figures.
It is envisaged to submit a proposal for a second Conference at a later stage. It would be closely related to this empirically oriented study, in that it would look at the cogency and adequacy, as well as the persuasive strategies, of the structures of argument employed by these figures in the debate between philosophical world-views.
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