Bridging the Two Cultures: History and Philosophy of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

在建立科学知识的过程中，有两个不同的学者群体：科学家和研究科学的人文主义者（哲学家、历史学家等）。尽管这些学者群体之间存在潜在的协同作用，但现代学术培训中最根本的学科分歧存在于科学与人文学科之间。科学和人文学科不仅在专业语言上有所不同，而且在各自的文化和交流模式（例如，写作风格、出版格式、口头陈述的惯例）上也有所不同。这些差异构成了沟通和合作的障碍，不利于这些领域的进步。知识价值。生物学历史与哲学计划的目标是将生物学历史学家和哲学家与研究生态学和进化生物学的生物学家聚集在一起。由研究生、博士后和教师导师组成的跨学科团队将从事生态学和进化生物学历史或哲学的原创性研究。研究生和博士后也将参加所有院系的教师和学生参加的课程、讲习班和研讨会。跨学科研究的成果将包括可发表的论文，在地方和国家会议上的演讲，以及具有不同寻常的广泛训练的研究生。这个项目的毕业生将有工具，使他们能够在自己的领域进行更强的研究，成为更好的教育者和传播者，并在研究科学的各个学科之间的合作中发挥领导作用。此外，这个教育和研究项目将作为佛罗里达州立大学历史、哲学和生物学研究生永久跨学科项目的起点。这将建立在佛罗里达州立大学最近建立的科学历史和哲学项目与长期存在的生态学和进化生物学研究生项目之间相互作用的现有基础之上。更广泛的影响。通过该奖学金项目，9名研究生和3名博士后将在其学科内外接受研究方法的培训。通过合作研究和课程作业，这些研究员将在自己的领域获得更广阔的视野。这将培养出在未来合作研究中成为领导者的学生，以及能够培养出跨越科学/人文边界的下一代学生的教师。通过将学生的注意力集中在生态学和进化生物学的历史和哲学上，该计划还将鼓励对当前重要政策问题（如全球变暖、转基因生物和进化论教学）核心科学本质的研究。我们预计这个项目将作为佛罗里达州立大学的一个永久项目继续下去。更好地了解这些科学的性质将有助于向公众和决策者有效地传播这些科学的发现。最后，我们将积极从代表性不足的群体中招募优秀的研究生和博士后，增加我们研究生和博士后人口的多样性。

Two distinct groups of scholars engage in the process of building scientific knowledge: scientists and the humanists who study science (philosophers, historians, etc.). Despite potential synergy among these groups of scholars, the most fundamental disciplinary rift in modern academic training is between the sciences and the humanities. Science and the humanities differ not just in professional language, but also in their very cultures and modes of communication (e.g., style of writing, publication format, conventions of oral presentation). These differences present barriers to communication and collaboration that are detrimental to progress in each of these fields. Intellectual merit. The objective of the proposed program in the History and Philosophy of Biology is to bring together historians and philosophers of biology with biologists studying ecology and evolutionary biology. Interdisciplinary teams of graduate students, a postdoctoral fellow, and faculty mentors will engage in original research in the history or philosophy of ecology and evolutionary biology. Graduate students and postdocs will also participate in courses, workshops and seminars that involve faculty and students from all departments. Outcomes of interdisciplinary research will include publishable papers, presentations at local and national meetings, and graduate students with an unusual breadth of training. Graduates of this program will have the tools to allow them to conduct stronger research in their own fields, be better educators and communicators, and act as leaders in collaborations between the various disciplines that study science. Further, this education and research program will serve as a starting point for a permanent interdisciplinary program for graduate students across History, Philosophy, and Biology at Florida State University. This will build upon an existing foundation of interactions between a recently established History and Philosophy of Science Program and the long-standing Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program at Florida State University. Broader Impacts. Through this fellowship program, nine graduate fellows and three postdoctoral fellows will receive training in research methods within and outside their disciplines. Through collaborative research and coursework, these fellows will gain a broader perspective on their own fields. This will produce students who will be leaders in future collaborative research, and teachers who can train the next generation of students to work across the science/humanities boundary. By focusing student attentions on the history and philosophy of ecology and evolutionary biology, the proposed program will also encourage research into the nature of the science at the heart of important current policy issues such as global warming, transgenic organisms, and the teaching of evolution. We foresee this program continuing as a permanent program at Florida State University. An improved understanding of the nature of these sciences will facilitate effective communication of the findings of these sciences to the public and to policy makers. Finally, there will be aggressive recruitment of excellent graduate student and postdoctoral fellows from among underrepresented groups, increasing diversity in our graduate and postdoctoral populations.