Scholars Award: Scientific Philosophy: Its Origins and Development, 1850 to 1950

提出了工作。准备一本书，答应劳特利奇，这将是科学哲学的历史发展的全面和综合的调查从19世纪中期到20世纪中期。PI将在2008年春夏两季完成已经完成的研究，并撰写该书的初稿。大部分工作将在公休期间在PI的家乡机构进行。其他研究将在不同的档案馆和研究所进行，包括匹兹堡大学的科学哲学档案馆（PI将于2007年秋季作为科学哲学中心的访问学者）和维也纳维也纳圈研究所（2008年春季）。知识价值。这本书将填补在科学哲学史上的一个主要空白，是第一个它的类型，能够利用现在广泛的，仍在迅速增长的学术上的科学哲学史，已经出现在过去的二十年。这本书还将纳入PI在物理学和科学哲学之间的相互作用等主题上的广泛原创研究成果，特别关注爱因斯坦对科学哲学的影响，以及该学科发展和渴望塑造的政治背景。但这本书的范围将是全面的，涉及哲学流派、民族哲学传统和所有科学学科的影响。它将展示新的研究成果，包括19世纪后期英国自然哲学的哲学背景，20世纪初法国科学哲学史，特别是埃米尔·迈耶森的圈子，以及生物科学、社会科学和人文科学对科学哲学发展的影响。这本书在某种程度上也是原创的，它着眼于科学哲学作为一门学科出现的制度背景。更广泛的影响。这本书将满足科学哲学社区中一个明显而敏锐的需求，人们希望更好地掌握这门学科的历史，从而促进对这门学科未来方向的讨论。这本书也应该对中学科学教师和教育专业人士产生影响，他们正在努力满足新规定的将“科学的本质”纳入中学科学教育的指导方针。科学教师需要一部完整易懂的科学哲学史。在PI的指导下，巴黎圣母院的历史和科学哲学研究生项目已经寻求通过为中学科学和数学教师创建历史和科学哲学暑期研究生项目来帮助这个社区。PI还将担任IHPST（国际历史、哲学和科学教学小组）2009年两年一次会议的当地组织者和东道主，IHPST是为科学教师和培训师社区服务的主要国际专业协会。

Proposed Work. Preparing a book, promised to Routledge, that will be a comprehensive and synthetic survey of the historical development of the philosophy of science from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. PI will spend the spring and summer of 2008 rounding out research already completed and writing a first draft of the book. The majority of the work will be carried out at the PI's home institution during a sabbatical leave. Additional research will be conducted at various archives and institutes, including the Archives for Scientific Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh (where the PI will be a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in the fall of 2007) and the Institute Vienna Circle in Vienna (spring 2008).Intellectual Merit. The book will fill a major gap in the literature on the history of the philosophy of science, being the first of its kind to be able to draw upon the now extensive and still rapidly growing scholarship on the history of the philosophy of science that has appeared in the last twenty years. The book will also incorporate the fruits of the PI's extensive original research on such topics as the interactions between physics and philosophy of science, with special focus on Einstein's impact on the philosophy of science, and the political context within which the discipline developed and which it aspired to shape. But the book will be comprehensive in its scope, with respect to philosophical schools, national philosophical traditions, and influences from all scientific disciplines. It will present the results of new research on topics including the philosophical background of later-nineteenth century British natural philosophy, the history of French philosophy of science in the early-twentieth century, especially the circle around Emile Meyerson, and the influence of the biological, social, and human sciences on the development of the philosophy of science. The book will also be original in the extent to which it looks at the institutional context in which the philosophy of science emerged as a discipline.Broader Impact. The book will fill an obvious and keenly felt need within the philosophy of science community, where one hopes that a better grasp of the discipline's history might catalyze discussion about the discipline's future directions. It book should also have an impact within the community of secondary school science teachers and education professionals who are struggling to satisfy newly-mandated guidelines for the inclusion of "the nature of science" in secondary school science education. A self-contained and accessible history of the philosophy of science is needed by science teachers. Under the PI's direction, Notre Dame's History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program has already sought to assist this community through the creation of a summer graduate program in history and philosophy of science for secondary school science and mathematics teachers. The PI will also serve as local organizer and host for the 2009 biennial meeting of IHPST, the International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group, the major international professional association serving the science teacher and trainer community.