Titlebook: Integrating History and Philosophy of Science; Problems and Prospec Seymour Mauskopf,Tad Schmaltz Book 2012 Springer Science+Business Media

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Philosophy of Science and Its Historical Reconstructionseant to invoke the title of another celebrated article, itself teasingly resonating with Lakatos’s, by Steven Shapin, “History of Science and Its Sociological Reconstructions” (Shapin 1982). Both Lakatos and Shapin wanted to talk about how best to do the history of science, but my own intention is n

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The Underdetermination Debate: How Lack of History Leads to Bad Philosophyermine scientific theories. Almost everybody agrees that some weak transitory underdetermination is a historical reality while several strong renderings are clearly implausible. Thus, the real challenge of the debate consists in formulating the underdetermination thesis in a way that strikes the rig

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Beyond Case-Studies: History as Philosophydespread disillusionment with the whole enterprise of integrated history and philosophy of science. The history-philosophy relationship should be seen as one between the concrete and the abstract, not between the particular and the general. An abstract framework is necessary for telling any concrete

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Scientists’ Methods Accounts: S. Weir Mitchell’s Research on the Venom of Poisonous Snakesy “methods accounts” I mean scientists’ accounts of the rules one should apply in experimental practice, the problems one may encounter in doing so, and the extent to which the investigators believed they had followed these rules. I then utilize the study of methods accounts to consider if and how h

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Quantum Gravity Meets &HPS alike. The absence of possible experiments and experimental anomalies that usually drive the development of the field expose an entirely different set of inner workings than we are used to seeing in science. One can see how a range of virtues (such as unification, beauty, and so on) beyond “the usu

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Social Epistemology of Stem Cell Research: Philosophy and Experimentition stems from an assumption of normative/descriptive dualism. This dualism polarizes the study of scientific inquiry into two mutually exclusive, yet co-dependent, projects: description of our actual scientific practices and their results, or abstract examination of epistemic ideals detached from

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