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Title Positioning the history of science / Jürgen Renn, Kostas Gavroglu (eds.)
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) : illustrations
Series Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 0068-0346 ; v. 248
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 248. 0068-0346
Contents Positioning the history of science / Kostas Gavroglu and Jürgen Renn -- Big history? / Babak Ashraft -- Suggestions for the study of science / Stephen G. Brush -- Will Einstein still be the super-hero of physics history in 2050? / Tian Yu Cao -- For a history of knowledge / Olivier Darrigol -- Working in parallel, working together / Lorraine Daston -- Challenges in writing about twentieth century East Asian physicists / Dong-Won Kim (Jhu) -- Why should scientists become historians? / Raphael Falk and Ruma Falk -- From the social to the moral to the spiritual: the postmodern exaltation of the history of science / Paul Forman -- Between science and history / Evelyn Fox Keller -- The search for autonomy in history of science / Yves Gingras -- Without parallels?: averting a Schweberian dystopia / Michael D. Gordin -- The intellectual strengths of pluralism and diversity / Loren Graham -- On connoisseurship / John L. Heilbron -- Concerning energy / Steve Joshua Heims -- Reflections on a discipline / Erwin N. Hiebert -- The woman in Einstein's shadow / Gerald Holton -- The mutual embrace: institutions and epistemology / David Kaiser -- History, science and history of science / Helge Kragh -- Parallel lives and the history of science / Mary Jo Nye -- Discarding, dichotomies, creating community: Sam Schweber and Darwin studies / Diane B. Paul and John Beatty -- Public participation and industrial technoscience today: the difficult question of accountability / Dominique Pestre -- The character of truth / Joan Richards -- Schweber, physicist, historian and moral example / José M. Sánchez-Ron -- What's new in science? / Terry Shinn -- On the road / Skúli Sigurdsson -- Plutarchian versus Socratic biography / Thomas Söderqvist -- Problems not disciplines / John Stachel -- Physicist-historians / Roger H. Stuewer -- Letting the scientists back in / Stephen J. Weininger -- Science as history / M. Norton Wise -- Postscript / Sam Schweber
Summary The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives. Readers will find it illuminating to learn how prominent authors judge the current status and the future perspectives of their field. Students will find this volume helpful as a guide in a fragmented field that continues to be dominated by idiosyncratic expertise and that still lacks a methodical canon. The essays were written in response to our invitation to explicate the views of the authors concerning the state of the history of science today and the issues we felt are related to its future. Although not all the scholars invited to write have contributed an essay, this volume can nevertheless be considered as a rather comprehensive survey of the present state of the history of science. All the papers collected here reflect in one way or another the strong influence Sam Schweber exerted during the past decades in his gentle way, on the history of science as well as on the lives of many of its protagonists worldwide. All who have had the opportunity of encountering him have benefited from his advice, benevolence, and friendship. Sam Schweber's intellectual taste, his passion for knowledge, and his erudition are all encompassing. It, therefore, seemed fitting to honor him with a collection of essays of comparable breadth; nothing less would suffice
Analysis filosofie
philosophy
wetenschapsfilosofie
philosophy of science
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Science -- History.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science.
Science
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Science
Science -- Philosophy
Philosophie
Wissenschaftsgeschichte Fach
Wetenschapsgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Renn, Jürgen, 1956-
Gavroglou, Kōstas
ISBN 9781402054204
1402054203
140205419X
9781402054198
6610901821
9786610901821