Integrating History and Philosophy of Science

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Seymour Mauskopf, Tad Schmaltz

   Pages 1-10

3. General Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Thomas Kuhn and Interdisciplinary Conversation: Why Historians and Philosophers of Science Stopped Talking to One Another

      • Jan Golinski

      Pages 13-28

   3. The History and Philosophy of Science History

      • David Marshall Miller

      Pages 29-48

   4. What in Truth Divides Historians and Philosophers of Science?

      • Kenneth L. Caneva

      Pages 49-57

   5. History and Philosophy of Science: Thirty-Five Years Later

      • Ronald N. Giere

      Pages 59-65

   6. Philosophy of Science and Its Historical Reconstructions

      • Peter Dear

      Pages 67-82

   7. The Underdetermination Debate: How Lack of History Leads to Bad Philosophy

      • Wolfgang Pietsch

      Pages 83-106

4. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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5. Specific Applications

   1. Beyond Case-Studies: History as Philosophy

      • Hasok Chang

      Pages 109-124

   2. Hidden Entities and Experimental Practice: Renewing the Dialogue Between History and Philosophy of Science

      • Theodore Arabatzis

      Pages 125-139

   3. Scientists’ Methods Accounts: S. Weir Mitchell’s Research on the Venom of Poisonous Snakes

      • Jutta Schickore

      Pages 141-161

   4. Quantum Gravity Meets &HPS

      • Dean Rickles

      Pages 163-199

   5. History and Philosophy of Science at Work: Making Regenerative Medicine Research Better

      • Jane Maienschein

      Pages 201-220

   6. Social Epistemology of Stem Cell Research: Philosophy and Experiment

      • Melinda Bonnie Fagan

      Pages 221-239

6. Back Matter

   Pages 241-249

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Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series of workshops on both sides of the Atlantic (called '&HPS') intended to bring historians and philosophers of science together to discuss new integrative approaches. This is therefore an especially appropriate time to explore the problems with and prospects for integrating history and philosophy of science. The original essays in this volume, all from specialists in the history of science or philosophy of science, offer such an exploration from a wide variety of perspectives. The volume combines general reflections on the current state of history and philosophy of science with studies of the relation between the two disciplines in specific historical and scientific cases.

• Historiography
• Historiography
• History
• History
• Interdisciplinary
• Interdisciplinary
• Philosophy
• Philosophy
• Science
• Science

From the reviews:

“The present review will focus on those contributions that confront important methodological issues in HPS in the vicinity of Giere’s challenge most directly. … the present volume does contain attempts to address concerns about the HPS method that are often aired … . A number of contributions take a … personal tone, thereby giving the reader an interesting insight into the mindsets of HPS practitioners which one would not find in standard scholarly publications.” (Samuel Schindler, Metascience, October, 2012)

• , History, Duke University, Durham, USA

  Seymour Mauskopf

• , Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  Tad Schmaltz

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