Handbook for the historiography of science / Mauro L. Condé, Marlon Salomon, editors.
Condé, Mauro L., editor.; Salomon, Marlon, editor.
2023
Q126.9
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Title Handbook for the historiography of science / Mauro L. Condé, Marlon Salomon, editors.
ISBN 9783031275104 (electronic bk.)
3031275101 (electronic bk.)
9783031275098
3031275098
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27510-4
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-27510-4 doi
Call Number Q126.9
Dewey Decimal Classification 509
Summary This book aims to perform a critical and broad assessment of the historiography of science produced from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It presents its main authors, concepts, ideas, conceptions, and schools. It also analyzes the historical circumstances of the rise of the discipline history of science and the relations of the historiography of science with related areas. These chapters do not understand the historiography of science as a mere description or record of the history of science. Instead, they understand the historiography of science from the epistemological criteria and choices that guided the writing of the history of science in its different contexts. In other words, more than describing the record of the various possibilities of historiographical approaches to science, the chapters carry out an epistemological reflection to assess the bases, possibilities, scope, and limits of different historiographical conceptions, authors, and traditions that have established the writing of the history of science. This book can be conceived as a reference work not only for professional historians and philosophers but also for academics from different backgrounds who are initiating themselves in the universe of history and philosophy of science, be they scientists from different fields or young researchers from different backgrounds who want to start studying the history and philosophy of science.
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Added Author Condé, Mauro L., editor.
Salomon, Marlon, editor.
Series Historiographies of science.
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Intro
Series Preface
Volume Preface
Contents
About the Series Editor
About the Volume Editors
Contributors
Part I: Key Authors for the Historiography of Science
1 Pierre Duhem: Between the Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History
Introduction
Shared Prejudice up Until Les origines de la statique
The Historiographic Turn: From Les origines de la statique Until Mid-1908
The Persistence Toward Medieval Dynamics: The Attribution of Importance to John Buridan and Nicole Oresme and Its Consequences
The Philosophy of History

The Idea of Providence as the Ruler of History
The Positive Role of Errors
The Historical Conditionings and the Search for Precursors
A Legalistic History
Duhemian (Dis) continuism in Question
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
2 The Origins of Alexandre Koyréś History of Scientific Thought
Introduction: An ``Almost Inevitable Passage ́́
Copernicus
Galileo
Descartes
The Topography of a Concept
Uncertainty, Disarray, and the Way Out of the Crisis
The Problem of Philosophy
Conclusion
Cross-References
References

3 Gaston Bachelard and Historical Epistemology: A New Perspective for the History of Science in the Twentieth Century
Introduction
A Perspective for the History of Science: The Bachelardian Epistemology
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
4 The Case of Life in the Historiography of Modern Science: Canguilhemś ``Biophilosophy ́́
Introduction
Canguilhemś Historical Epistemology and His Time
The Historical Epistemology of Life
Scientific Facts as Vital Facts
Epistemologist or Philosopher of Life? One or Many Canguilhems

The Obstacles to Scientific Knowledge of Life
History of Science, Historical Epistemology, and Historical Epistemology of the Life Sciences
Biological Philosophy and Vitalist Themes
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
5 Ludwik Fleck: Thought Style and Thought Collective in the Historiography of Science
Introduction
The Thought Collective and Its Thought Style
A Biological Model for the Historiography of Science
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
6 John Desmond Bernal and ``Bernalism ́́
Introduction
Cambridge ``High Science ́́in the 1920s

The London 1931 Congress and the Development of History of Science
The Social Function of Science
War Research and History of Science
Science in History
History of Science at Cambridge
``Bernalism ́́and the New Britain
The Decline of ``Bernalism ́́and the Birth of STS
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
7 Thomas Kuhnś Legacy for the Historiography of Science
Introduction
Paradigms, Scientific Revolutions, and Incommensurability
History Versus Philosophy: The Debate Between Kuhn and Popper

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