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

该奖项为一个综合科学史和科学哲学这两个不同领域的研讨会提供了支持。学科分歧双方的大量学者在2007年发起了一项国际跨学科倡议，以推动这两个领域的整合。很早就认为有必要制定一种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实质性的困难。这次讲习班的组织者提出了另一种方法方法，将有助于将这两个学科结合在一起，倡导方法上的多元化。如果没有单一的方法来定义这个领域，讨论的重点将是社区如何凝聚，以及如何指导新的学者。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库(综合科学哲学库)，作为捕捉这样一个社区的轮廓和允许对早期职业研究人员进行有效指导和指导的基本工具。该研讨会的组织者认为，综合科学史和科学哲学库领域需要一个多元化的框架来分析过去和现在的全面科学，以不同的方式结合对科学的哲学分析和历史评估。研讨会将把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，将综合医疗保险社区描述为一个问题解决者社区。会议讨论将探讨一种以问题为中心的多元化综合HPS方法论，它受益于最近HPS学术文献中出现的各种方法。研讨会参与者将开始讨论和规划一个最终的出版和储存库项目，该项目远远超出会议本身，可以作为人文和社会科学其他跨学科研究领域的典范。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.