Integrating History and Philosophy of Science HPS 1702

Integrating History and Philosophy of Science HPS 1702 Junior/Senior Seminar for HPS Majors
HPS 1703 Writing Workshop for HPS Majors John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh 1

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Philosophy of Science… 8

Philosophy of Science, Historically Informed Philosophy of science inevitably makes claims about what happens and happened in science. These are historical claims and should be made responsibly. 9

Philosophy of Science, Illustrated by History of Science 10

Philosophy of Science, Inferred from History of Science 11

History of Science… 12

History of Science, Philosophically Informed History of science cannot be written without some conception of what science is. These are philosophical claims and should be made responsibly. 13

Science as Progressive Discovery of Nature 14

Gillispies’ view 15

Science without Progress 16

Science as driven by experiment 17

History with Different Purposes. What was the rational basis of the Einstein Bohr Debate? 18

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History with Different Purposes. What was the human basis of the Einstein Bohr Debate? 20

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Integrated History and Philosophy of Science… 22

History and Philosophy of Science, Interwoven 23

Intervowen Philosophy: Present claims of a deep connection between thermodynamic entropy and information are mistaken History: development of ideas on Maxwell’s demon, entropy and information from Maxwell to the present. HPS synthesis: Narrative traces gradual evolution of views, accretion of good ideas, their eclipsing by bad ones until we arrive at the modern mess. Maxwell Smoluchowski Szilard 24

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HOPOS is not &HPS History OF Philosophy of Science 26

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