ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 summarizes the basic argument in each chapter and highlights two conclusions. The book shows how in the lives of individual scientists the making of objective science was an interplay between the rational and irrational and the intrapsychic and intersubjective worlds, and how the deeper affective drives of the scientists have pioneered ethos in science. It further argues that the connection between the affective and the cognitive is highly specific and compelling in shaping the lives and work of the scientists. Not only has the affective provided powerful motivational force for the choice of empirical problems, but it has been profoundly constitutive of the making of the science itself. The affective history of the gene has further consequences for the history of method in science and the history of epistemology, however, these remain to be explored.
