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，两大学科领域的大量学者发起了一项国际性、跨学科的倡议，以推动这两个领域的整合。人们很早就认为有必要发展一种统一的方法来实现一体化。但是，这样做的企图只会暴露出非常重大的困难。本次研讨会的组织者提出了另一种方法方法，该方法将有助于将这两个学科整合在一起，倡导方法的多元化。讨论将集中在如何凝聚社区，以及如何指导新学者，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哲学（综合HPS）作品库，作为捕捉这种社区轮廓和允许对早期职业研究人员进行有效指导和定向的基本工具。本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来分析过去和现在的科学，将哲学分析和科学的历史评价以不同的方式结合起来。研讨会将把来自这两个领域的学者聚集在一起，在阐明对该领域的新理解方面取得进展，将综合HPS社区描述为一个问题解决者社区。会议讨论将探讨一个以问题为中心和多元化的综合HPS方法，该方法受益于最近HPS学术文献中出现的各种方法。讲习班参与者将开始讨论和规划最终的出版和存储项目，该项目远远超出会议本身，并可作为人文和社会科学中其他跨学科研究领域的典范。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.