Conference and Workshop Support: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science

为了促进科学史和科学哲学的综合研究，成立了“科学史和科学哲学综合委员会”。主要手段将是通过发起一系列会议，明确地专门讨论影响这种一体化的工作。该提案的学术价值在于试图重振现有的科学历史和哲学社区，并吸引对综合HPS感兴趣的新学者；并在综合科学史和科学哲学方面产生新的学术成果。这一目标将通过创建一个专门讨论综合HPS的新论坛来实现，该论坛向所有感兴趣的学者开放，他们可以在那里会面并展示他们的工作。更广泛的影响将通过该领域以外的人对综合科学史和科学哲学的长期兴趣而产生。我们许多在科学领域寻求更广泛理解的同事发现，综合科学史和科学哲学的工作特别有启发性，因为它可以将科学中的基础问题与背景问题联系起来。人文学科的学者们经常发现这些分析很有帮助，原因类似，并且作为一种非常成功的跨学科努力的典范。最后，综合科学史和科学哲学的基础研究为教育提供了主要的来源材料。为科学教育提供可用于向学生传达科学人文语境的材料；以及科学对人文研究的重要性。它还为努力向学生传达“科学的本质”的中学科学教师提供了基本的原始材料。

The Committee for Integrated HPS (History and Philosophy of Science) has been formed to foster research that integrates history of science and philosophy of science. The principal means will be through the initiation of a series of conferences devoted explicitly to work that effects this integration. The intellectual merit of the proposal rests on the attempt to invigorate the existing community in history and philosophy of science, as well as attracting new scholars with an interest in integrated HPS; and to generate new scholarship in integrated history and philosophy of science. This goal will be achieved by the creation of a new forum devoted to integrated HPS that is open to all interested scholars, at which they can meet and present their work. The broader impact will derive through the long-standing interest of people outside the field in integrated history and philosophy of science. Many of our colleagues in the sciences who seek a broader understanding of their science find work in integrated history and philosophy of science to be especially illuminating, since it can connect the foundational issues in the science with contextual issues. Scholars in the humanities often find these analyses helpful for similar reasons and as one model of a highly successful type of interdisciplinary endeavor. Finally, fundamental research in integrated history and philosophy of science provides primary source material for education. It provides to science education materials that can be used to convey the humanistic context of science to students; as well as the importance of science to humanistic studies. It also offers fundamental source materials for secondary science teachers struggling to convey to their students the "nature of science."