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    Politics and Modernity: History of the Human Sciences Special Issue.Irving History of the Human Sciences, Robin Velody & Williams - 1993 - SAGE Publications.
    Politics and Modernity provides a critical review of the key interface of contemporary political theory and social theory about the questions of modernity and postmodernity. Review essays offer a broad-ranging assessment of the issues at stake in current debates. Among the works reviewed are those of William Connolly, Anthony Giddens, J[um]urgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor and Roy Bhaskar. As well as reviewing the contemporary literature, the contributors assess the historical roots of current problems in the works of (...)
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    Francis Bacon's natural philosophy: a new source, a transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A.Francis Bacon, Graham Rees, Christopher Upton & British Society for the History of Science - 1984 - British Society for the History of Science.
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  3. Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science.Margaret Ann Boden - 2006 - Oxford University Press.
    Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modelling its workings. Its development is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. Mind as Machine is a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.
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    History of science in Central and Eastern Europe : Studies from Poland, Hungary, and Croatia.Mitchell G. Ash - 2021 - Centaurus 63 (3):546-552.
    The article introduces a special section about history of science in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the fall of Communism, and sketches a conceptual framework within which the three papers in the section can be understood together. This introduction provides information about the workshop from which the papers were recruited, and continues with more general considerations on the nationalization of scientific knowledge in the territories of the Habsburg empire and its successor states. In the second half (...)
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    (1 other version)The Nay Science: A History of German Indology.Vishwa Adluri & Joydeep Bagchee - 2014 - New York: Oup Usa. Edited by Joydeep Bagchee.
    In The Nay Science, Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee undertake a careful and rigorous hermeneutical approach to nearly two centuries of German philological scholarship on the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita.
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    Using History and Philosophy of Science to Promote Students’ Argumentation.Pablo Antonio Archila - 2015 - Science & Education 24 (9-10):1201-1226.
    This article describes the effect of a teaching–learning sequence based on the discovery of oxygen in promoting students’ argumentation. It examines the written and oral arguments produced by 63 high school students in France during a complete TLS supervised by the same teacher. The data used in this analysis was derived from students’ written responses, audio and video recordings, and written field notes. The first goal of this investigation was to provide evidence that an approach combining history and philosophy (...)
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    Why history and philosophy of science matters.Luciano Boschiero - 2020 - Metascience 29 (1):1-4.
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    History of Science as Interdisciplinary Education in American Colleges: Its Origins, Advantages, and Pitfalls.Paula Viterbo - 2007 - Journal of Research Practice 3 (2):Article M16.
    Before 1950, history of science did not exist as an independent academic branch, but was instead pursued by practitioners across various humanities and scientific disciplines. After professionalization, traces of its prehistory as a cross-disciplinary area of interest bound to an interdisciplinary, educational philosophy have remained. This essay outlines the development of history of science as an interdisciplinary academic field, and argues that it constitutes an obvious choice for inclusion in an interdisciplinary academic program, provided faculty and (...)
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    The dynamics of science: computational frontiers in history and philosophy of science.Grant Ramsey & Andreas de Block (eds.) - 2022 - Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.
    Millions of scientific articles are published each year, making it difficult to stay abreast of advances within even the smallest subdisciplines. Traditional approaches to the study of science, such as the history and philosophy of science, involve closely reading a relatively small set of journal articles. And yet many questions benefit from casting a wider net: Is most scientific change gradual or revolutionary? What are the key sources of scientific novelty? Over the past several decades, a massive (...)
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    Science and society: the history of modern physical science in the twentieth century.Peter Galison, Michael D. Gordin & David Kaiser - 2001 - New York: Routledge.
    v. 1 Making special relativity -- v. 2. Making general relativity -- v. 3. Physical science and the language of war -- v. 4. Quantum histories.
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    History of Science in a National Context.Maurice Crosland - 1977 - British Journal for the History of Science 10 (2):95-113.
    The history of science can be approached in several different ways. It may be studied, as in the classification once favoured in the long-established Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, by considering separately the history of individual sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, etc.—Partington's monumental History of chemistry is a good example of the cross-section of history of science obtained by considering a single discipline. This approach is understandable when (...)
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    The history of physics: a very short introduction.J. L. Heilbron - 2018 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    How does the physics we know today-- a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry-- link back to its origins as a liberal art in ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating (...)
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    The history of physics: a biographical approach.Howard T. Milhorn - 2008 - College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm.com.
    The history of physics ranges from antiquity to modern string theory. Since early times, human beings have sought to understand the workings of nature--why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. The emergence of physics as a science, distinct from natural philosophy, began with the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries when the scientific method came into vogue. Speculation was no longer acceptable; research was required. The beginning of (...)
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    Philosophy of Science and the History of Science.Don Howard - 2011 - In Steven French & Juha Saatsi, Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science. Continuum. pp. 55.
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    Readings in the History of Mankind: The Evolution of Science.J. D. Bastable - 1965 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 14:277-278.
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    Clio meets minerva: Interrelations between history and philosophy of science.Barbara Tuchanska - 2002 - „Pantaneto Forum”,Http (issue 13).
    The idea that science is historical is almost a cliché nowadays. The historical dimensions of science have begun to be appreciated by philosophers of science, for some through the work of Kuhn, and for others through Popper and Lakatos. Does this mean that contemporary philosophy of science understands the historical nature of science? Let me begin with a provocative negative answer. My reason is not the obvious one, namely, that there are several competing models that (...)
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  17. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture: An Introductory Presentation.Kireet Joshi, Sen Gupta & K. A. (eds.) - 2004 - Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
     
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    Duhem and Continuity in the History of Science.Roger Ariew & Peter Barker - 1992 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 46 (182):323-343.
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    The Academic Form of Science Organization in Ukraine: An Essay on the History.Galyna Zvonkova & Vira Gamaliia - 2021 - Acta Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 9 (1):82-96.
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    Truth and History in Science: Cognitive Progress in Spite of Pervasive Fallibility.Gerard Radnitzky - 1982 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 38 (2/3):253 - 274.
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    Prescription Versus Description in Philosophy of Science, or Methodology Versus History: a Critical Assessment.Nader Chokr - 1986 - Metaphilosophy 17 (4):289-299.
    This paper examines critically the current state of affairs in philosophy of science. It focuses on the well-Known puzzle about the relationship between the normative prescriptive methodology of science and positive descriptive history of science. This puzzle has dogged philosophers of science for over a generation and is still controversial. My conclusion is that there is really no escape from it. The best way to characterize it is as follows: "philosophy of science without (...) of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.". (shrink)
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  22. Toward a rational history of medical science.C. K. - 1995 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 26 (3):493-502.
     
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    Using History of Science to Teach Nature of Science to Elementary Students.Valarie Akerson, Heidi Masters & Khadija Fouad - 2015 - Science & Education 24 (9-10):1103-1140.
    Science lessons using inquiry only or history of science with inquiry were used for explicit reflective nature of science instruction for second-, third-, and fourth-grade students randomly assigned to receive one of the treatments. Students in both groups improved in their understanding of creative NOS, tentative NOS, empirical NOS, and subjective NOS as measured using VNOS-D as pre- and post-test surveys. Social and cultural context of science was not accessible for the students. Students in second, (...)
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    Science history in Barcelona’s urban spaces: Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan : Barcelona: an urban history of science and modernity, 1888–1929. London and New York: Routledge, 2016, 258pp, £95 HB.Miquel Carandell Baruzzi - 2017 - Metascience 26 (2):303-305.
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    History of science-with labs.Douglas Allchin, Elizabeth Anthony, Jack Bristol, Alan Dean, David Hall & Carl Lieb - 1999 - Science & Education 8 (6):619-632.
    We describe here an interdisciplinary lab science course for non-majors using the history of science as a curricular guide. Our experience with diverse instructors underscores the importance of the teachers and classroom dynamics, beyond the curriculum. Moreover, the institutional political context is central: are courses for non-majors valued and is support given to instructors to innovate? Two sample projects are profiled.
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    History and philosophy of science.R. L. Cunningham - 1964 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 38:201-208.
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    Economic Aspects of Science: Editor's Introduction.Mike Thicke - 2013 - Spontaneous Generations 7 (1):1-5.
    The economics of science is a discipline with a long history, and yet one where there if often too little dialogue between its constituent parts. The articles in this issue's focused discussion begin to address that problem by examining recent developments in science's economic circumstances from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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    The Impact of Science on American History.John Fulton - 1951 - Isis 42 (3):176-191.
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    “What is HPS for?” Review of the Fifth Joint Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science.Felix Ernst Rietmann - 2011 - Spontaneous Generations 5 (1):88-90.
    The Fifth Joint Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science asked participants, “What is HPS for?” This clearly instrumental question generated a welcome spectrum of practical responses. Examples of “HPS-in-action” included the concept of complementary science, suggestions for new pedagogical strategies and investigations into the socio-political dimensions of science. On the other hand, a more theoretical underpinning did emerge in a discussion of the pros and cons of pluralism. This emphasis on pluralism not only underlies (...)
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    A highly personal view of science and its history.Cyril Stanley Smith - 1977 - Annals of Science 34 (1):49-56.
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    Revisiting the history of relativity: Richard Staley: Einstein’s generation: The origins of the relativity revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, x+494pp, $38 PB, $98 HB.Lewis Pyenson, Sean F. Johnston, Alberto A. Martínez & Richard Staley - 2011 - Metascience 20 (1):53-73.
    Revisiting the history of relativity Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9466-4 Authors Lewis Pyenson, Department of History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5242, USA Sean F. Johnston, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Rutherford-McCowan Building, Dumfries, Glasgow, Scotland G2 0RB, UK Alberto A. Martínez, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station B7000, Austin, TX 78712-0220, USA Richard Staley, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 226 Bradley Memorial Building, (...)
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    Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science.J. L. Berggren & Roshdi Rashed - 2000 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2):282.
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    Radiation before the bomb: Matthew Lavine: The first atomic age: Scientists, radiations, and the American Public, 1895–1945. Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 260pp, $95.00 HB.Audra J. Wolfe - 2014 - Metascience 24 (2):237-238.
    Matthew Lavine’s The First Atomic Age is intended as a corrective to what has by now become a familiar story of postwar US nuclear culture. The popular enthusiasm for and fear of all things nuclear, as described in such works as Paul Boyer’s By the Bomb’s Early Light , was not in fact a new development but rather a repeat of a phenomenon that first manifested half a century earlier. Working with newspapers, magazines, trade journals, advertisements, product labels, pulp fiction, (...)
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    The History of Science as Oxymoron: From Scientific Exceptionalism to Episcience.Ken Alder - 2013 - Isis 104 (1):88-101.
    ABSTRACT This essay argues that historians of science who seek to embody our oxymoronic self-description must confront both contradictory terms that define our common enterprise—that is, both “history” and “science.” On the history/methods side, it suggests that we embrace the heterogeneity of our institutional arrangements and repudiate the homogeneous disciplinary model sometimes advocated by Thomas Kuhn and followed by art history. This implies that rather than treating the history of science as an end (...)
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    4. History and Science ; On H. T. Buckle's, History of Civilization in England.Frithjof Rodi & Rudolf A. Makkreel - 1996 - In Rudolf A. Makkreel & Frithjof Rodi, Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume Iv: Hermeneutics and the Study of History. Princeton University Press. pp. 261-270.
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    Remarks concerning the History of Twentieth Century Science.George Sarton - 1936 - Isis 26 (1):53-62.
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    Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science. Edited by Alexander Jones and Liba Taub.Daniel Patrick Morgan - 2022 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 141 (2).
    The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1, Ancient Science. Edited by Alexander Jones and Liba Taub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 642. $160.
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    Introduction to Isis Focus section on Ordering the Discipline: Classification in the History of Science.Stephen P. Weldon - 2013 - Isis 104 (3):537-539.
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    (1 other version)Philosophy of science (wissenschaftstheorie) in denmark.Johs Witt-Hansen - 1970 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 1 (2):264-283.
    The philosophy of science discussion in Denmark has mainly concentrated on the problem of the external world, the problem of induction, the problem of dialectic in the Marxian sense and the strife between ontological viewpoints, originating in the philosophical tradition, and the analytical method emerging in modern mathematics and quantum mechanics. In this discussion Bohr's correspondence argument and his doctrine of language have functioned as tools of analysis and as objects of study as well. In general, Bohr and J. (...)
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  40. Beyond tile diffusionist history of colonial science Review of The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization and Colonial Rule in India.Dhruv Raina - 1998 - Social Epistemology 12:203-213.
     
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  41. Studies in the sociology of knowledge and their implications for history of science.Dr Oldroyd - 1987 - History of Science 25 (1).
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    (1 other version)Why should I read histories of science? A response to Patricia Fara, Steve Fuller and Joseph Rouse.Mark Erickson - 2010 - History of the Human Sciences 23 (4):68-91.
    History of science is, we are told, an important subject for study. Its rise in recent years to become a ‘stand alone’ discipline has been mirrored by an expansion of popular history of science texts available in bookstores. Given this, it is perhaps surprising that little attention has been given to how history of science is written. This article attempts to do that through constructing a typology of histories of science based upon a (...)
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  43. (1 other version)The reign of science in the history of a race.Alfred H. Lloyd - 1912 - Mind 21 (84):486-507.
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    Ninth Annual Report of the Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer of the History of Science Society for the Year 1932.F. Brasch - 1933 - Isis 19 (1):11-12.
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    Guest Editorial: The History of Medicine and the History of Science.Gert Brieger - 1981 - Isis 72 (4):537-540.
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    Introduction to Special Section on Virtue in the Loop: Virtue Ethics and Military AI.D. C. Washington, I. N. Notre Dame, National Securityhe is Currently Working on Two Books: A. Muse of Fire: Why The Technology, on What Happens to Wartime Innovations When the War is Over U. S. Military Forgets What It Learns in War, U. S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group The Shot in the Dark: A. History of the, Global Power Competition His Writing has Appeared in Russian Analytical Digest The First Comprehensive Overview of A. Unit That Helped the Army Adapt to the Post-9/11 Era of Counterinsurgency, The New Atlantis Triple Helix, War on the Rocks Fare Forward, Science Before Receiving A. Phd in Moral Theology From Notre Dame He has Published Widely on Bioethics, Technology Ethics He is the Author of Science Religion, Christian Ethics, Anxiety Tomorrow’S. Troubles: Risk, Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance, The Ethics of Precision Medicine & Encountering Artificial Intelligence - 2025 - Journal of Military Ethics 23 (3):245-250.
    This essay introduces this special issue on virtue ethics in relation to military AI. It describes the current situation of military AI ethics as following that of AI ethics in general, caught between consequentialism and deontology. Virtue ethics serves as an alternative that can address some of the weaknesses of these dominant forms of ethics. The essay describes how the articles in the issue exemplify the value of virtue-related approaches for these questions, before ending with thoughts for further research.
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    Paul Langevin : L'histoire des sciences comme remède à tout dogmatisme / Paul Langevin : History of science as a remedy for every dogmatism.Bernadette Bensaude Vincent - 2005 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 58 (2):311-328.
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    Science in Reflection: The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 3.Edna Ullmann-Margalit - 1988 - Springer, Dordrecht.
    The Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science presents before you its third volume of proceedings. The philosophy section of the volume has three main foci: the scientific explanation (Hempel and Ben-Menachem, Elster and Dascal); realism in science (Cohen and Zemach) and its implications for the problem of universals (Armstrong and Bar-Elli); and the question of demarcation: the dividing line between science and philosophy (KrUger), as well as the cognitive limits of science (...)
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    History of Science in Spain: A preliminary survey.Alberto Elena & Javier Ordóñez - 1990 - British Journal for the History of Science 23 (2):187-196.
    It can certainly be said that history of science has experienced a large growth in recent decades in Spain. This has occurred despite the generic term ‘history of science’ covering activities of a very varied nature and lacking an intimate relation between each other, in research as well as instruction. At present the number of publications which could fit into the frame of this branch of learning has increased remarkably and commercial publishing houses have opened their (...)
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    History of Science and American Science Policy.Zuoyue Wang & Naomi Oreskes - 2008 - Isis 99 (2):365-373.
    Historians of science have participated actively in debates over American science policy in the post–World War II period in a variety of ways, but their impact has been more to elucidate general concepts than to effect specific policy changes. Personal experiences, in the case of the debate over global warming, have demonstrated both the value and the limits of such involvement for the making of public policy. To be effective, historians of science need to strive for clarity (...)
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