Conference and Workshop Support: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science

成立了科学历史和科学哲学综合委员会，以促进将科学史和科学哲学相结合的研究。主要手段将是发起一系列会议，明确致力于实现这一一体化的工作。该建议的学术价值在于试图振兴现有的科学史和科学哲学界，吸引对综合科学计划感兴趣的新学者，并在综合科学史和科学哲学方面产生新的学术研究。这一目标将通过创建一个专门讨论综合卫生保健计划的新论坛来实现，该论坛向所有感兴趣的学者开放，他们可以在这个论坛上见面并介绍他们的工作。更广泛的影响将来自该领域以外的人对综合科学历史和科学哲学的长期兴趣。我们科学界的许多同事寻求对他们的科学有更广泛的了解，他们发现科学综合历史和科学哲学的工作特别有启发性，因为它可以将科学中的基础问题与背景问题联系起来。出于类似的原因，人文科学的学者经常发现这些分析是有帮助的，并将其作为一种非常成功的跨学科努力的模式。最后，综合科学历史和科学哲学的基础研究为教育提供了原始素材。它为科学教育提供了材料，可用于向学生传达科学的人文背景；以及科学对人文研究的重要性。它也为中学科学教师努力向他们的学生传达“科学的本质”提供了基本的素材。

The Committee for Integrated HPS (History and Philosophy of Science) has been formed to foster research that integrates history of science and philosophy of science. The principal means will be through the initiation of a series of conferences devoted explicitly to work that effects this integration. The intellectual merit of the proposal rests on the attempt to invigorate the existing community in history and philosophy of science, as well as attracting new scholars with an interest in integrated HPS; and to generate new scholarship in integrated history and philosophy of science. This goal will be achieved by the creation of a new forum devoted to integrated HPS that is open to all interested scholars, at which they can meet and present their work. The broader impact will derive through the long-standing interest of people outside the field in integrated history and philosophy of science. Many of our colleagues in the sciences who seek a broader understanding of their science find work in integrated history and philosophy of science to be especially illuminating, since it can connect the foundational issues in the science with contextual issues. Scholars in the humanities often find these analyses helpful for similar reasons and as one model of a highly successful type of interdisciplinary endeavor. Finally, fundamental research in integrated history and philosophy of science provides primary source material for education. It provides to science education materials that can be used to convey the humanistic context of science to students; as well as the importance of science to humanistic studies. It also offers fundamental source materials for secondary science teachers struggling to convey to their students the "nature of science."