On the importance of philosophy for history of science: Studies in the logic of erudition

Emotion and feeling have only in the last decade become analytic concepts in the humanities, reflected in what some have called an “affective turn” in the academy at large. The study of emotion has also found a place in science studies and the history and philosophy of science, accompanied by the recognition that even the history of objectivity depends in a dialectical fashion on a history of subjectivity (Daston and Galison 2010, esp. chap. 4). This topical issue is a contribution to this larger trend across the humanities and the history of science, and yet is circumscribed by attention to a particular kind of emotion or condition for feeling: one centered not in an individual body, but in the interstices between bodies and things, between selves and others – what we call empathy.

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Towards a History of Preservation Practices: Archaeology, Heritage, and the History of Science

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743815000598 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 574-579 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mirjam Brusius

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

History Of Science ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Science Studies ◽

Geographical Region ◽

History Of Archaeology ◽

Global History ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

History Of

My roundtable contribution inevitably starts with a critique of the field the scholarly utility of which we as contributors wish to defend. The study of the antique sciences (including the history of archaeology and heritage) still has marginal standing in science studies. So does the Middle East as a geographical region, which until recently enjoyed little scholarly interest in the field. The persistent Eurocentric research agenda of science studies has been questioned, however, with the recent call for a “global history of science.” This ambiguous term has triggered new methodological challenges, but it has also created new trenches.

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Introduction: Science in Latin-American Contexts – Historical Studies

Science in Context ◽

10.1017/s0269889705000438 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 173-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Leo Corry

Keyword(s):

History Of Science ◽

Latin American ◽

Social Impact ◽

American Studies ◽

Science Studies ◽

Western Civilization ◽

Latin American Studies ◽

General Field ◽

History Of

This issue of Science in Context presents a collection of historical studies on various aspects of science and its practice as developed in Latin-American contexts. Relatively few scholars working in the history of science, and even in the more general field of “science studies,” have devoted their research to this field. Likewise, relatively little research has been done by scholars of Latin American studies on the cultural, political, and social impact of science, a field that is usually considered to be one of the central, defining aspects of modern, Western civilization.

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Science Studies and the History of Science

Critical Inquiry ◽

10.2307/25599400 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 798

Author(s):

Daston

Keyword(s):

History Of Science ◽

Science Studies ◽

History Of

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Engineering Heterotopia

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743815000574 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 566-569

Author(s):

Shehab Fakhry Ismail

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

History Of Science ◽

Nature Of Science ◽

Science Studies ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Mutual Engagement ◽

New Concepts ◽

Starting Point ◽

History Of ◽

Global Nature

My starting point is the present—certainly a critical and loaded moment for scholars of the modern Middle East. It is incumbent upon us to take a step back and to rethink how to create new concepts, new narratives, new explanatory schemes, new historicities, and new visions of the future. An engagement with science studies, understood broadly, is one possible way to begin such critical rethinking. It is an exercise that could also be mutually illuminating, as scholars of science studies have been debating the global nature of science and technology for the last decade, undoubtedly in reaction to the once European-dominated narrative of the history of science. The field of science studies has moved well beyond “diffusion” and “core-periphery” models toward more eclectic examinations of various processes of epistemic encounters, translations, mediations, and conflicts that shaped societies. These processes also shaped science and technology. Here, I would like to provide a brief outline of one mutual engagement inspired by the injunction to follow scientists, doctors, and engineers and to probe what was at stake in the knowledge they produced and how they “made society.”

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Local Ideas and Global Networks

Provincializing Global History ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300237160.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 52-84

Author(s):

James Livesey

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Intellectual History ◽

History Of Science ◽

Science Studies ◽

Sociology Of Science ◽

Global Networks ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

University Science ◽

Scientific Ideas

This chapter talks about the aftermath of the collapse in authority of positivist models where scholars became highly sensitized to the implication of strategies of inquiry and interpretation with strategies of control. Even in areas of the social sciences that did not commit to discourse as a master category, the suspicion that the claim to a form of truth, or knowledge, entirely distinct from power, was in fact nothing more than a mystification that had explosive consequences. The history of science in its many forms has been transformed. In turn, the challenge to an easy universalism in the sciences has been foundational to the emergence of global intellectual history. The philosophical and methodological challenges of even the most mediated and subtle kinds of constructivism create dual fundamentalist temptations, toward a self-refuting reductivism or an overstated idealism. The “strong program,” associated with the Edinburgh University Science Studies Unit, pursued a wholehearted sociology of science and argued that the truth-value of particular scientific ideas was itself social in origin, thus collapsing the discovery/validation dichotomy.

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Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Editors

Science in Context ◽

10.1017/s0269889708002044 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

History Of Science ◽

Science Studies ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Quarter Century ◽

The Past ◽

Science Technology ◽

History Of ◽

Nature And Society

We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of science and technology must regard this as a fascinating and crucial practical, cultural and intellectual phenomenon. Analysis of the roots and meaning of metrics and metrology has been a preoccupation of much of the best work in our field for the past quarter century at least. As practitioners of the interconnected disciplines that make up the field of science studies we understand how significant, contingent and uncertain can be the process of rendering nature and society in grades, classes and numbers.

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Aportes historiográficos para los estudios de género y ciencia en Argentina=Historiographic contributions to gender and science studies in Argentina

Cuestiones de género de la igualdad y la diferencia ◽

10.18002/cg.v0i15.6175 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Sacha Victoria Lione

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

History Of Science ◽

Science Studies ◽

Scientific Field ◽

Field Of Study ◽

Gender Perspective ◽

Current Trends ◽

General Terms ◽

History Of ◽

And Gender

ResumenEl objetivo del presente trabajo es revisitar la historiografía sobre género y ciencia, para pensar algunas claves desde dónde se mira el campo científico en clave de género en Argentina. Para ello, en primer lugar, se propone reconstruir en trazos generales las diferentes líneas de historia de la ciencia desde una perspectiva de género y las indagaciones realizadas en el campo. En segundo lugar, abordar los aportes que los estudios de género han realizado a la historiografía y, en especial, a la historia de la ciencia en Argentina. Por último, indagar algunas corrientes actuales que vinculan los estudios de la historia y de género, para proponer algunas líneas de análisis o puentes posibles del campo de estudio que expanda sus fronteras. AbstractThe aim of the present work is to revisit the historiography on gender and science, to think about some keys from where the scientific field is looked at in terms of gender in Argentina. Firstly, it is proposed to reconstruct in general terms the different lines of history of science from a gender perspective and the inquiries carried out in the field; Secondly, to address the contributions that gender studies have made to historiography and, especially, to the history of science in Argentina; Finally, investigate some current trends that link the studies of history and gender, to propose some possible lines of analysis or bridges of the field of study that expands its borders.

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