The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective. Yet, since its gradual formation as a research field, the question of how to suitably integrate both perspectives remains open. This volume presents cutting edge research from junior iHPS scholars, and in doing so provides a snapshot of current developments within the field, explores the connection between iHPS and other academic disciplines, and demonstrates some of the topics that are attracting the attention of scholars who will help define the future of iHPS.
Emily Herring, Kevin Matthew Jones, Konstantin S. Kiprijanov, and Laura M. Sellers are postgraduate researchers based at the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds.
History and Philosophy of Technoscience
Series Editor: Alfred Nordmann
8 The Mysterious Science of the Sea, 17751943
Natascha Adamowsky
9 Reasoning in Measurement
Nicola Mner and Alfred Nordmann (eds)
10 Research Objects in their Technological Setting
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Sacha Loeve, Alfred Nordmann and Astrid Schwarz (eds)
11 Environments of Intelligence: From Natural Information to Artificial Interaction
Hajo Greif
12 A History of Technoscience: Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology
David F. Channell
13 Visual Representations in Science: Concept and Epistemology
Nicola Mner
14 From Models to Simulations
Franck Varenne
15 The Reform of the International System of Units (SI)
Nadine de Courtenay, Olivier Darrigol, and Oliver Schlaudt (eds)
16 The Past, Present, and Future and Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
Emily Herring, Kevin Matthew Jones, Konstantin S. Kiprijanov and Laura M. Sellers (eds)
17 Nanotechnology and Its Governance
Arie Rip
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Alex Aylward is currently working towards his PhD in the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK. His research focuses upon the influential British statistician and geneticist R. A. Fisher (18901962), and in particular the writing and reception of his The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930), considered by some to be the most important book on evolution since Charles Darwins Origin. Alexs interests lie mainly in the history and philosophy of the biological sciences, but also extend to historiography, and the relations between history of science and philosophy of science.
Klodian Cokos research focuses on the historical emergence and development of scientific methods. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at the University of Western Ontario. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow in the Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (20162017), and a predoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2014). In December 2015, he was awarded a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University Bloomington.
Claudia Cristalli is currently doing a PhD at UCL, London. Her thesis, The Philosophical Psychology of Charles S. Peirce, addresses a neglected aspect of Peirces engagement with science and explores how Peirces pragmatist philosophy shaped his inquiry in cognitive psychology. She recently published Experimental Psychology and the Practice of Logic in the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. Her interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of history, philosophy of science in practice, philosophy of the social sciences, feminist epistemology. Outside academia, Claudias commitment to philosophy includes facilitating philosophical discussion and presenting philosophical topics at Stuart Low Trust Philosophy Forum.
Joe Dewhurst is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, where he is working on developing a moderately perspectival account of mechanistic functions in biology and cognitive science. He was awarded his PhD in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh, where his doctoral research looked at the relationship between common-sense intuitions and scientific theories in contemporary cognitive science. His other research interests include the philosophy of computation, philosophy of mind and cognition more generally, and the history of cognitive science.
Andrea Gambarotto completed a Cotutelle Doctoral Degree Program under the joint supervision of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (Florence) and the Institut dhistoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (Paris). He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Universit Catholique de Louvain, where he is developing a project on Hegels philosophy of biology.
Emily Herring studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and is now completing a PhD at the University of Leeds on the reception of French philosopher Henri Bergsons theories among British biologists.
Jon Hodge is Senior Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. His books include Origins and Species (1991) and two volumes of papers, Before and After Darwin: Origins, Species, Cosmogonies and Ontologies (2008) and Darwin Studies: A Theorist and His Theories in Their Contexts (2008). Jon has also edited the Routledge Companion to the History of Modern Science (1996) with Geoffrey Cantor, John Christie and Roger Olby, and the Cambridge Companion to Darwin with Greg Radick (2nd edition, 2009).
Kevin Matthew Jones is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds, researching topics within the history and philosophy of psychiatry, in particular attempts made to standardize psychiatric classification in the United Kingdom c.18001950. He has published on the history of psychiatric and psychological concepts, popular representations of psychiatric concepts, and the history of psychology. His most recent paper looked at intersections between psychiatry and psychology within the British Psychological Societys section on Medical Psychology, and the implications of its disappearance at the end of the 1950s. He has also written about music, and recently contributed a chapter to
