Integrating History and Philosophy of Science
Subtitle: Problems and Prospects
By: edited by Seymour Mauskopf, Tad Schmaltz
Contributors: Schmaltz, Tad; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science -- 263
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9789400717442; 9789400717459
Subjects: Philosophy (General); Humanities; Medicine; Science; Philosophy; History
Description: "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') to bring historians and philosophers of science together to discuss 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 discussion of the relation between the two disciplines in specific historical and scientific cases"--Publisher's description, back cover.