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The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until
recently, the book's philosophical reception has been shaped, for
the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of
science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes
a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular
issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and
without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the
time of the Structure's publication. There has been extensive
research on all of the major issues concerning the development of
science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the
scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively
involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a
number of topics relevant to Structure's concerns, such as the
nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical
positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of
science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and
scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new
light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and
undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the
Structure's significance in the canon of philosophy of science.
This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian
of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international
acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of
history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries
of the European Periphery, and the constructive dialogue of these
emerging communities with an extended community of international
scholars. The papers in the volume reflect Gavroglu’s broad range
of intellectual interests and touch upon significant themes in
recent history and philosophy of science. They include topics in
the history of modern physical sciences, science and technology in
the European periphery, integrated history and philosophy of
science, historiographical considerations, and intersections with
the history of mathematics, technology and contemporary issues.
They are authored by eminent scholars whose academic and personal
trajectories crossed with Gavroglu’s. The book will interest
historians and philosophers of science and technology alike, as
well as science studies scholars, and generally readers interested
in the role of the sciences in the past in various geographical
contexts.
This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian
of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international
acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of
history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries
of the European Periphery, and the constructive dialogue of these
emerging communities with an extended community of international
scholars. The papers in the volume reflect Gavroglu's broad range
of intellectual interests and touch upon significant themes in
recent history and philosophy of science. They include topics in
the history of modern physical sciences, science and technology in
the European periphery, integrated history and philosophy of
science, historiographical considerations, and intersections with
the history of mathematics, technology and contemporary issues.
They are authored by eminent scholars whose academic and personal
trajectories crossed with Gavroglu's. The book will interest
historians and philosophers of science and technology alike, as
well as science studies scholars, and generally readers interested
in the role of the sciences in the past in various geographical
contexts.
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until
recently, the book's philosophical reception has been shaped, for
the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of
science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes
a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular
issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and
without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the
time of the Structure's publication. There has been extensive
research on all of the major issues concerning the development of
science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the
scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively
involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a
number of topics relevant to Structure's concerns, such as the
nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical
positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of
science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and
scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new
light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and
undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the
Structure's significance in the canon of philosophy of science.
Both a history and a metahistory, "Representing Electrons" focuses
on the development of various theoretical representations of
electrons from the late 1890s to 1925 and the methodological
problems associated with writing about unobservable scientific
entities.
Using the electron--or rather its representation--as a historical
actor, Theodore Arabatzis illustrates the emergence and gradual
consolidation of its representation in physics, its career
throughout old quantum theory, and its appropriation and
reinterpretation by chemists. As Arabatzis develops this novel
biographical approach, he portrays scientific representations as
partly autonomous agents with lives of their own. Furthermore, he
argues that the considerable variance in the representation of the
electron does not undermine its stable identity or existence.
Raising philosophical issues of contentious debate in the history
and philosophy of science--namely, scientific realism and meaning
change--Arabatzis addresses the history of the electron across
disciplines, integrating historical narrative with philosophical
analysis in a book that will be a touchstone for historians and
philosophers of science and scientists alike.
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