@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008730, author = {長尾, 伸一 and NAGAO, Shinichi}, issue = {3}, journal = {経済科学}, month = {Dec}, note = {The aim of the paper is to find out the framework in which the plurality of worlds debate was performed within modern European knowledge community from 17th century to 19th century. The paper examines the controversy raised by the book of William Whewell in the middle of 19th century England. Analyzing the propositions of the three most important participants of the debate, of Whewell, David Brewster and Baden Powell, it concludes that, even in the middle of the century, there was a basic cognitive structure that enabled natural theology and science to cohabitate in an apparently scientific argumentation. Both parties carried out the battle on this very same plain. The disappearance of extra terrestrial intelligent beings in the discussions of the knowledge community in the following periods could be understand as the change of this very framework.}, pages = {1--17}, title = {19世紀ブリテンの「世界の複数性」論争}, volume = {53}, year = {2005} }