Positioning the history of science / Jürgen Renn, Kostas Gavroglu (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renn, Jürgen, 1956-

Gavroglou, Kōstas

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Boston studies in the philosophy of science 0068-0346 ; v. 248.

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 0068-0346 ; v. 248

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

History.

Science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2007]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781402054198

140205419X

OCLC:

86075157