Handbook for the Historiography of Science

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-27509-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 633 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1251 g

Reihe: Historiographies of Science

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salomon, Marlon

Condé, Mauro L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pierre Duhem: Between the Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History - The Origins of Alexandre Koyré’s History of Scientific Thought - Gaston Bachelard and historical epistemology: A New Perspective for the History of Science in the 20th Century - The Case of Life in the Historiography of Science: Canguilhem’s “Biophilosophy” - Ludwik Fleck: Thought Style and Thought Collective in the Historiography of Science - John Desmond Bernal and “Bernalism” - Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy in the Historiography of Science - Bourdieu and the Social History of Scientific Reason - A Plea for a Critical History of Science: Joseph Agassi’s Historiography of Science - Embodied Boundaries of Historical Studies of Science: A Vision of Steven Shapin’s Historiography - Ian Hacking’s Contributions to Historical Reflection on Science - Lorraine Daston’s Historical Epistemology: Style, Program, School - The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions: A Philosophical Reflection - Historical Epistemology - The French Style in the History and Philosophy of the Sciences - The Beginning of the Epistemological History of Science: Gaston Bachelard’s Responsibility - Early Historiography of Science - On the Interpretations of the Cultural and Techno-Scientific Significance of Portuguese Navigations: A Historiographic Approach - “The Herodotus of Geometry”: Montucla and the Birth of a General Historiography of Science in the French Enlightenment - Leonhard Euler’s Works on the Motion of the Moon: A Historiographical Shift - The Emergence of a Sophisticated Historiography of Science in Continental Europe in the late Nineteenth Century - Feynman’s Frameworks on Nanotechnology in Historiographical Debate - Cosmopolitical Propositions: A Historiographic Analysis of Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on Sciences - Science, Religion and the Creation of Historiographical Categories - Post-Colonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science - Historiography of Science and Gender Equality: Challenges and Perspectives - Historiography of Science and the relationship between History and the History of Science - Historiography of Science and the Philosophy of History: Rapprochement between Disciplines that Never Ruptured

Über Autor(innen)

Mauro L. Condé is a Professor of History of Science (Historiography of Science) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) since 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (2001). From 2009 to 2010, He was a visiting scholar at Boston University (USA). He also was a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna in 2016 and the University of São Paulo in 2017. His primary academic interests and research topics focus on the relationship between the historiography of science and epistemology. Author of several articles, book’s chapters, and books on historiography of science. He wrote especially on Kuhn and Fleck and the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language. He was editor of several books and currently is Editor-in-Chief of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science.
Marlon Salomon is an Associate Professor of Modern History at the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil) since 2003. In 2006 and 2009, he was a visiting professor on the history of science team at the University of Picardy Jules Verne (France). His main research interest focuses on the relationships between the historiography of science and other academic disciplines, such as philosophy and history. In recent years, he has been dedicating himself to the study of conceptions of temporality in the history of the historiography of science. He is the author of numerous studies on Alexandre Koyré and on the development of the historiography of science in France. He was editor of several books and currently is Editor-in-Chief of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science.