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Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science
been recognized - though not always under that name - as a distinct
field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian
region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this
broad area of inquiry found their base, both intellectually and
socially, where they could. In fact, the institutionalization of
History and Philosophy of Science began compara tively early in
Australia. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the
University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in
1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an
expansion during the 1950s and '60s similar to that which took
place in other parts of the world. Today there are major
Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New
South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups
active in many other parts of Australia, and in New Zealand.
"Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to
provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New
Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy
and social studies of science. Each volume will comprise a group of
essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New
Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. The
series should, however, prove of more than merely local interest.
Papers will address general issues; parochial topics will be
avoided."
The nature of that transition to maturity a transition involving
"The acquisition of the sort of paradigm that identifies
challenging puzzles, supplies clues to their solution, and
guarantees that the truly clever practitioner will succeed")
deserves fuller discussion than it has received in this book,
particularly from those concerned with the development of the
contemporary social sciences. (Thomas S. Kuhn, 1969, Postscript to
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ) The fIrst two or three
decades of the twentieth-century represents a shadowy period in the
history of science. For most contemporary scientists, the period is
a little too far away to be the subject of a fIrst-hand oral
tradition; while at the same time it is not suffIciently remote to
have acquired the epic and oversimplifIed contour of history which
has been transformed into mythol ogy. Historians of science, by
contrast, who want to free themselves from the mythology which is
used to legitimize the present state of the discipline, are
interested in discovering what really happened, and how it was
regarded at the time. For them the nature of science in the early
twentieth-century is obscured by what they regard as its proximity
in time, and they are disturbed by a general lack of depth in
scholarly work in the area, which makes it diffI cult to see the
period in proper perspective."
Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science
been recognized - though not always under that name - as a distinct
field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian
region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this
broad area of inquiry found their base, both intellectually and
socially, where they could. In fact, the institutionalization of
History and Philosophy of Science began compara tively early in
Australia. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the
University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in
1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an
expansion during the 1950s and '60s similar to that which took
place in other parts of the world. Today there are major
Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New
South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups
active in many other parts of Australia, and in New Zealand.
"Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to
provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New
Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy
and social studies of science. Each volume will comprise a group of
essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New
Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. The
series should, however, prove of more than merely local interest.
Papers will address general issues; parochial topics will be
avoided."
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