Bridging the Two Cultures: History and Philosophy of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

两个不同的学者群体参与建立科学知识的过程：科学家和研究科学的人文主义者(哲学家、历史学家等)。尽管这些学者群体之间存在潜在的协同作用，但现代学术培训中最根本的学科裂痕是科学和人文之间的分歧。科学和人文学科不仅在专业语言上不同，而且在各自的文化和交流方式上也不同(例如，写作风格、出版格式、口头陈述的惯例)。这些差异对沟通和协作构成障碍，不利于在这些领域取得进展。智力上的优点。《生物学历史与哲学》的拟议课程的目标是将生物学历史学家和哲学家与研究生态学和进化生物学的生物学家聚集在一起。由研究生、博士后研究员和教师导师组成的跨学科团队将从事生态学和进化生物学的历史或哲学方面的原创性研究。研究生和博士后还将参加所有系的教职员工和学生参加的课程、研讨会和研讨会。跨学科研究的成果将包括可发表的论文、在地方和国家会议上的演讲，以及具有非同寻常的培训广度的研究生。该项目的毕业生将拥有工具，使他们能够在自己的领域进行更强有力的研究，成为更好的教育者和传播者，并在学习科学的不同学科之间的合作中发挥带头作用。此外，这一教育和研究项目将作为佛罗里达州立大学历史、哲学和生物学研究生永久跨学科项目的起点。这将建立在最近建立的科学史和科学哲学课程与佛罗里达州立大学长期的生态学和进化生物学研究生课程之间互动的现有基础上。更广泛的影响。通过这一奖学金计划，9名研究生研究员和3名博士后研究员将接受其学科内外的研究方法培训。通过合作研究和课程学习，这些研究员将在自己的领域获得更广阔的视角。这将培养出将成为未来合作研究领导者的学生，以及能够培养下一代学生跨越科学/人文界限工作的教师。通过将学生的注意力集中在生态学和进化生物学的历史和哲学上，拟议的课程还将鼓励对处于当前重要政策问题(如全球变暖、转基因生物和进化论教学)核心的科学本质的研究。我们预计这个项目将继续作为佛罗里达州立大学的永久项目。更好地了解这些科学的性质将有助于向公众和政策制定者有效地传播这些科学的发现。最后，将积极从代表性不足的群体中招聘优秀的研究生和博士后研究员，增加我们研究生和博士后群体的多样性。

Two distinct groups of scholars engage in the process of building scientific knowledge: scientists and the humanists who study science (philosophers, historians, etc.). Despite potential synergy among these groups of scholars, the most fundamental disciplinary rift in modern academic training is between the sciences and the humanities. Science and the humanities differ not just in professional language, but also in their very cultures and modes of communication (e.g., style of writing, publication format, conventions of oral presentation). These differences present barriers to communication and collaboration that are detrimental to progress in each of these fields. Intellectual merit. The objective of the proposed program in the History and Philosophy of Biology is to bring together historians and philosophers of biology with biologists studying ecology and evolutionary biology. Interdisciplinary teams of graduate students, a postdoctoral fellow, and faculty mentors will engage in original research in the history or philosophy of ecology and evolutionary biology. Graduate students and postdocs will also participate in courses, workshops and seminars that involve faculty and students from all departments. Outcomes of interdisciplinary research will include publishable papers, presentations at local and national meetings, and graduate students with an unusual breadth of training. Graduates of this program will have the tools to allow them to conduct stronger research in their own fields, be better educators and communicators, and act as leaders in collaborations between the various disciplines that study science. Further, this education and research program will serve as a starting point for a permanent interdisciplinary program for graduate students across History, Philosophy, and Biology at Florida State University. This will build upon an existing foundation of interactions between a recently established History and Philosophy of Science Program and the long-standing Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program at Florida State University. Broader Impacts. Through this fellowship program, nine graduate fellows and three postdoctoral fellows will receive training in research methods within and outside their disciplines. Through collaborative research and coursework, these fellows will gain a broader perspective on their own fields. This will produce students who will be leaders in future collaborative research, and teachers who can train the next generation of students to work across the science/humanities boundary. By focusing student attentions on the history and philosophy of ecology and evolutionary biology, the proposed program will also encourage research into the nature of the science at the heart of important current policy issues such as global warming, transgenic organisms, and the teaching of evolution. We foresee this program continuing as a permanent program at Florida State University. An improved understanding of the nature of these sciences will facilitate effective communication of the findings of these sciences to the public and to policy makers. Finally, there will be aggressive recruitment of excellent graduate student and postdoctoral fellows from among underrepresented groups, increasing diversity in our graduate and postdoctoral populations.