Integrating history and philosophy of science: problems and prospects

260 Pages·2012·1.289 MB·English

by  Mauskopf, Seymour, Schmaltz, Tad (eds.)

INTEGRATING HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
OF SCIENCE
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors
ROBERTS.COHEN,BostonUniversity
JÜRGENRENN,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience
KOSTASGAVROGLU,UniversityofAthens
ManagingEditor
LINDYDIVARCI,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience
EditorialBoard
THEODOREARABATZIS,UniversityofAthens
ALISABOKULICH,BostonUniversity
HEATHERE.DOUGLAS,UniversityofPittsburgh
JEANGAYON,UniversitéParis1
THOMASF.GLICK,BostonUniversity
HUBERTGOENNER,UniversityofGoettingen
JOHNHEILBRON,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
DIANAKORMOS-BUCHWALD,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology
CHRISTOPHLEHNER,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience
PETERMCLAUGHLIN,UniversitätHeidelberg
AGUSTÍNIETO-GALAN,UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona
NUCCIOORDINE,UniversitádellaCalabria
ANASIMÕES,UniversidadedeLisboa
JOHNJ.STACHEL,BostonUniversity
SYLVANS.SCHWEBER,HarvardUniversity
BAICHUNZHANG,ChineseAcademyofScience
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INTEGRATING HISTORY
AND PHILOSOPHY
OF SCIENCE
Problems and Prospects
Editedby
SEYMOUR MAUSKOPF
DukeUniversity,Durham,NC,USA
TAD SCHMALTZ
UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI,USA
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Editors
SeymourMauskopf TadSchmaltz
DukeUniversity UniversityofMichiganPhilosophy
History SouthStateSt.435
Durham 48109-1003AnnArbor
USA Michigan
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ISSN0068-0346
ISBN978-94-007-1744-2 e-ISBN978-94-007-1745-9
DOI10.1007/978-94-007-1745-9
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SeymourMauskopfandTadSchmaltz
PartI GeneralReflections
2 Thomas Kuhn and Interdisciplinary Conversation:
Why Historians and Philosophers of Science Stopped
TalkingtoOneAnother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
JanGolinski
3 TheHistoryandPhilosophyofScienceHistory . . . . . . . . . . . 29
DavidMarshallMiller
4 WhatinTruthDividesHistoriansandPhilosophersofScience? . . 49
KennethL.Caneva
5 HistoryandPhilosophyofScience:Thirty-FiveYearsLater . . . . 59
RonaldN.Giere
6 PhilosophyofScienceandItsHistoricalReconstructions . . . . . . 67
PeterDear
7 TheUnderdeterminationDebate:HowLackofHistory
LeadstoBadPhilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
WolfgangPietsch
PartII CaseStudies
8 BeyondCase-Studies:HistoryasPhilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
HasokChang
9 HiddenEntitiesandExperimentalPractice: Renewing
theDialogueBetweenHistoryandPhilosophyofScience . . . . . . 125
TheodoreArabatzis
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10 Scientists’MethodsAccounts:S.WeirMitchell’sResearch
ontheVenomofPoisonousSnakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
JuttaSchickore
11 QuantumGravityMeets&HPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
DeanRickles
12 History and Philosophy of Science at Work:
MakingRegenerativeMedicineResearchBetter. . . . . . . . . . . 201
JaneMaienschein
13 SocialEpistemologyofStemCellResearch:Philosophy
andExperiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
MelindaBonnieFagan
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Contributors
TheodoreArabatzis DepartmentofPhilosophyandHistoryofScience,
UniversityofAthens,UniversityCampus,AnoIlisia,15771Athens,Greece,
[email protected]
KennethL.Caneva UniversityofNorthCarolinaatGreensboro,Greensboro,
NC,USA,[email protected]
HasokChang UniversityofCambridge,Cambridge,UK,[email protected]
PeterDear CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA,[email protected]
MelindaBonnieFagan RiceUniversity,Houston,TX,USA,[email protected]
RonaldN.Giere UniversityofMinnesota,Minnesota,MN,USA,
[email protected]
JanGolinski UniversityofNewHampshire,Durham,NH,USA,
[email protected]
JaneMaienschein ArizonaStateUniversity,Tempe,AZ,USA,
[email protected]
SeymourMauskopf DukeUniversity,Durham,NC,USA,[email protected]
DavidMarshallMiller DukeUniversity,Durham,NC,USA,
[email protected]
WolfgangPietsch CarlvonLinde-Akademie,TechnischeUniversitätMünchen,
München,Germany,[email protected]
DeanRickles UniversityofSydney,Sydney,NSW,Australia,
[email protected]
JuttaSchickore IndianaUniversity,Bloomington,IN,USA,
[email protected]
TadSchmaltz UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI,USA,
[email protected]
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About the Authors
Theodore Arabatzis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the author of Representing Electrons: A
BiographicalApproachtoTheoreticalEntities(Chicago,2006).
Kenneth L. Caneva is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro.HeistheauthorofPossibleKuhnsintheHistoryofScienceofScience:
Anomolies of Incommensurable Paradigms (Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science,2000).
HasokChangisProfessorofPhilosophyofScienceatUniversityCollegeLondon.
He is the author of Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress
(Oxford,2006).
Peter Dear is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of The
IntelligibilityofNature:HowScienceMakesSenseoftheWorld(Chicago,2006).
MelindaBonnieFaganisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatRiceUniversity.She
istheauthorofTheSearchfortheHematopoeticStemCell:SocialInteractionand
EpistemicSuccessinImmunology(StudiesinHistoryandPhilosophyofBiological
andBiomedicalSciences,2007).
Ronald N. Giere is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of
Minnesota.HeistheauthorofScientificPerspectivism(Chicago,2006).
Jan Golinski is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New
Hampshire. He is the author of Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and
theHistoryofScience(Chicago,2005).
JaneMaienscheinisRegent’sProfessorintheSchoolofLifeSciencesatArizona
State University. She is the author of Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning and
StemCells(Harvard,2003).
Seymour Mauskopf is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Duke
University (specialty, history of science). His most recent publication is “The
Historiography of Science and Technology” (with Alex Roland), The Oxford
History of Historical Writing, Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945 (Oxford,
2011).
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