Conference: The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis, March 2007; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

会议：精确科学的文化炼金术：重访福尔曼论文，2007年3月智力价值这笔赠款支持由共同PI（凯瑟琳卡森和阿列克谢Kojevnikov）组织的会议，以辩论现代科学史上的经典问题，福尔曼论文对魏玛文化对量子力学的影响。福尔曼1971年的文章深刻地影响了一代历史学家的工作，并对科学知识社会学的出现做出了强有力的贡献。虽然它是该领域被引用最多的著作之一，但它不能被认为是普遍接受的，相反，它仍然是广泛分歧的观点和学术立场的主题。会议的目标是促进批判性对话，将福尔曼问题的经典公式与大量新的实证研究和最近的方法学发展相互作用，并将结果广泛发表在一份特别期刊上。会议将有助于聚集一个新的学者社区，其中许多是年轻的研究人员，并激发对当代趋势和未来研究的有希望目标的集体思考。根据福尔曼论文的基本意义，项目的影响范围很广。会议会谈将向公众开放，可能包括一个大型研究生聚会。出版的产品将成为科学史和科学哲学研究生教学的资源。此外，现代物理学被广泛认为是新科学文化史的一个测试案例，这意味着它的发现将被广泛传播。

Conference: The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences:Revisiting the Forman Thesis,March 2007Intellectual MeritsThis grant supports a conference organized by the co-PIs (Cathryn Carson and AlexeiKojevnikov) to debate a classic problem in the history of modern science, the Forman thesis on the influence of Weimar culture on quantum mechanics. Formans essay of 1971 deeply affected the work of a generation of historians and contributed powerfully to the emergence of the sociology of scientific knowledge. Although one of the most cited works in the field, it nevertheless cannot be considered generally accepted, but, on the contrary, remains the subject of widely diverging opinions and scholarly positions. Broader Impacts The goal of the meeting is to foster critical dialogue, bringing the classic formulations of Formans problem into interaction with the wealth of new empirical studies and more recent methodological developments and to make the results widely available in a special journal issue. The conference will help pull together a new community of scholars, many of them younger researchers, and spur collective reflection on contemporary trends and promising targets of future investigation. In line with the Forman thesis foundational significance, the projects impacts range broadly. The conference talks will be opened to the public, including possibly a large graduate student gathering. The published product will be a resource for graduate teachingin the history and philosophy of science. Moreover, the widely recognized status of modern physics as a test case for the new cultural history of science means that its findings will carry far afield.