Workshop: Furthering Integrated History and Philosophy of Science via Methodological Pluralism; July 2020, Blacksburg, Virginia

该奖项为整合科学史和科学哲学两个不同领域的研讨会提供支持。2007年，学科鸿沟两边的大量学者发起了一项国际性的跨学科倡议，以促进这两个领域的融合。人们很早就认为，有必要制定统一的方法来实现一体化。但这样做的尝试只会暴露出非常重大的困难。本次研讨会的组织者提出了一种替代方法，将有助于将这两个学科结合在一起，倡导方法的多元化。讨论将集中在如何社区可以凝聚力，以及如何新的学者可以得到指导，如果没有单一的方法来定义该领域。它还将侧重于开发一个动态和灵活的综合科学史和科学哲学知识库（综合HPS）作为一个重要的工具，捕捉这样一个社区的轮廓，并允许有效的指导和早期职业研究人员的方向。这次研讨会的组织者认为，综合HPS领域需要一个多元化的框架，以分析科学的全面影响，过去和现在，结合哲学分析和历史评价的科学在不同的方式。该研讨会将使来自两个领域的学者聚集在一起，朝着阐明对该领域的新理解取得进展，将综合HPS社区描述为问题解决者的社区。会议讨论将探讨一个以问题为中心的和多元化的方法，综合HPS，从最近HPS学术文献中出现的不同方法的好处。研讨会的参与者将开始讨论和规划一个最终的出版和知识库项目，该项目远远超出了会议本身，可以作为人文和社会科学研究的其他跨学科领域的典范。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award provides support for a workshop to integrate two distinct fields, history of science and philosophy of science. A substantial number of scholars on both sides of the disciplinary divide started an international, interdisciplinary initiative in 2007 to advance the integration of these two fields. It was thought early on that it would necessary to develop a unified methodology to bring about integration. But attempts to do so only served to bring to light very substantial difficulties. The organizers of this workshop propose an alternative methodological approach that would serve to integrate these two disciplines together that advocates pluralism in methods. Discussion will focus on how the community can be cohesive, and how new scholars can be mentored, if there is no single methodology serves to define the field. It will also focus on the development of a dynamic and flexible repository of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (Integrated HPS) works as an essential tool for capturing the contours of such a community and for allowing for effective mentoring and orientation of early career researchers.The organizers of this workshop contend that the field of Integrated HPS needs a pluralistic framework for the analysis of the full sweep of science in past and present, combining philosophical analysis and historical evaluation of science in diverse ways. The workshop will bring scholars from both fields together to make progress towards articulating a new understanding of the field, characterizing the Integrated HPS community as a community of problem solvers. The conference discussion will investigate a problem-centered and pluralistic methodology for integrated HPS that benefits from the diverse approaches emerging in recent HPS scholarly literature. Workshop participants will begin discussion and planning for an eventual publishing and repository project that goes well beyond the conference itself and can serve as a model for other interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities and social sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.