Positioning the history of science /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2007]
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science.
v. 248. |
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Table of 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.