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Philosophy of science --- Science --- Philosophy --- Historiography --- -Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- -Philosophy --- Normal science --- Science - Philosophy --- Science - Historiography

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This volume collects reflections on the role of philosophy in case studies in the history of science. Case studies have played a prominent role in recent history and philosophy of science. They have been used to illustrate, question, explore, or explicate philosophical points of view. Even if not explicitly so, historical narratives are always guided by philosophical background assumptions. But what happens if different philosophies lead to different narratives of the same historical episodes? Can historical case studies decide between competing philosophical viewpoints? What are the criteria that a case study has to fulfill in order to be philosophically relevant? Bringing together leading practitioners in the fields of history and philosophy of the physical and the life sciences, this volume addresses this methodological problem and proposes ways of rendering explicit philosophical assumptions of historical work.

Philosophy of science --- History as a science --- Science --- Philosophy and science --- History --- Historiography --- Philosophy --- Science - Historiography --- Science - Philosophy --- History. --- Philosophy and science. --- History of Science. --- Philosophy of Science.

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Today, an increasing number of historians are turning to the history of recent and contemporary science. When doing so, they are confronted with new and unfamiliar methodological and theoretical problems: How to handle the huge amounts of published and unpublished sources? Is it possible to write a synthetic history of recent science? What level of scientific training is necessary to understand recent and contemporary science? Does the lack of historical distance prevent good scholarship? Can (and will) historians of recent science share the turf with other professional groups, such as active scientists, scholars of science and technology studies, and science journalism? How to deal with scientists' and technocrats' constant interference with our work? Whose history are we writing? Whose science? The thirteen contributors to this volume are active researchers in what has been called 'the last frontier' in the history of science.

Science --- Technology --- Historiography --- Historiographies --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- history --- Conferences - Meetings --- Natural sciences --- Science - Historiography - Congresses. --- Technology - Historiography - Congresses.

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This volume in the Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science is the first attempt to present to a general audience some works which have been done in Brazil on ths subject. The included papers are original, reaching a remarkable number of relevant topics of philosophy of science, logic and on the history of science. The Brazilian community has increased in the last years in quantity and in quality of the works, most of them being published in respectable international journals on the subject. There is an informal but general among the philosophers and historians of science that the works must be of high quality, and we hope this volume may contribute to widespread this idea. The chapters of this volume are forwarded by a general introduction, which aims at to sketch not only the contents of the chapters, but it is conceived as a historical and conceptual guide about the development of field, as developed in Brazil. The introduction intends to be be very useful to the interestes readers, and not only to the specialists helping them to evaluate the production of this country that it is raising up in the international context.

Philosophy and science. --- Philosophy. --- Science -- Historiography. --- Science -- Philosophy. --- Science. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Research --- Science --- History. --- Logic. --- Philosophy of Science. --- History of Science. --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Methodology --- Science and philosophy

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The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scientific Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the first half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar in the Ukraine, participated in the October Revolution and was executed in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the purges. Grossmann was born a Jewish subject of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser in Poland and served as an Austrian officer in the First World War; afterwards he was forced to return to Poland and then because of his revolutionary political activities to emigrate to Germany; with the rise to power of the Nazis he had to flee to France and then America while his family, which remained in Europe, perished in Nazi concentration camps. Our own acquaintance with the work of these two authors is also indebted to historical context (under incomparably more fortunate circumstances): the revival of Marxist scholarship in Europe in the wake of the student movement and the professionalization of history of science on the Continent. We hope that under the again very different conditions of the early twenty-first century these texts will contribute to the further development of a philosophically informed socio-historical approach to the study of science.

Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950. --- Hessen, Boris. --- Science -- Historiography. --- Science -- History. --- Science --- Sciences - General --- History - General --- History & Archaeology --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Historiography --- History --- Historiography. --- History. --- Grossmann, Henryk, --- Grossman, Henryk --- Grossmann, Heinrich, --- Grossmann, H. --- Grossman, Henryk, --- Grossman, Chaskel, --- Science. --- Philosophy and science. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Physics. --- History of Science. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Science, general. --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Social sciences --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Philosophy. --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Science and philosophy