Positioning the History of Science ppt

[...].. .Positioning the History of Science 3 by enlarging the interface between science and the history of science But can this interface be really enlarged without, at the same time, ensuring that historians of science are capable of speaking the same language as the scientists themselves? As a matter of fact, precisely because of the pluralism at every level in the history of science, characteristic of. .. understanding of the world and the lively controversies along the way Plays about physicists and mathematicians (Copenhagen, QED, Proof) have been popular The authors of these works are often very good writers and some of them even read our publications However, few of them are historians of science in the modern sense They repeat old myths and stereotypes about the history of science without making the effort... institutional role for the history of science This may also be an argument for bringing the scientist back into the history of science: as science has to face history, scientists have to face historians of science The values mentioned above together with issues of style, such as modesty, tolerance, tact and taste – which have always been the hallmark of excellent contributions to the history of science – can... published in 1962, on the rhetoric of geophysicists involved in the “Revolution in the Earth Sciences” that revived continental drift theory under the name of Plate Tectonics By appealing to [Kuhn’s view of] the history of science, they helped to establish [their view of] the history of the Earth It is consistent with one interpretation of quantum mechanics, according to which any observation of a phenomenon... of the Crystal Maze,7 a study of the history of solid state physics The project is interesting both for its pioneering work on the history of solid state physics and for its scale of collaboration, which is so rare in the history of science, or the humanities more generally for that matter The project was undertaken because the investigators, both historians and scientists, felt that the topic of their... Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology, Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, v 4 Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 1997 STEPHEN G BRUSH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STUDY OF SCIENCE Recently, an education columnist in the Washington Post wrote that students should be given some idea of “how the various disciplines fit together (the history of science, the mathematics of sport…)”.1... interrelated with the history of science has contributed a number of values of its own From the essays in this volume, what clearly emerges is the ‘moral integration’ of the history of science, which has been often overlooked due to its controversies There clearly is a common engagement in the goal among historians of science of quite different types, to contribute to a greater reflectiveness about science, ... science, to highlight the moral and edifying aspects of science, to remind us that social choices are at the core of science and to stress the communal aspects of the history of science, including the need for the public accessibility of knowledge A related moral issue emerging as a common denominator is the striving for the accountability of science with regard to society and the realization that such... interactions of more elementary entities In their grand narrative of physics history as an epic of ever-grander unification of physical theory, Einstein is the super-hero Of Einstein’s unparalleled prominence in all three histories of physics we had striking evidence at the recent International Congress of the History of Science in Beijing Falling in fully with the celebration of the World Year of Physics... explanation of known facts? Historians who study the reception of scientific theories are best able to answer this question because they have the evidence right in front of them; but unless they recognize the importance of the question they may simply report who accepted or rejected the theory without investigating why We have here another causality issue, this time on the level of individual scientists rather . Falk 43 From the Social to the Moral to the Spiritual: The Postmodern Exaltation of the History of Science Paul Forman 49 Between Science and History Evelyn. 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