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Motiv för vetenskapshistoria. Civilisationsdiagnos, vetenskapsanalys och kunskapsöversättning (2012)

Nordlund, Christer (Author)

Lychnos
Pages: 207-231

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Translated title: [On reasons for the history of science].
Language: Swedish

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This essay is based on the author's inaugural lecture as Professor of History of Science and Ideas, delivered at Umeå University on 22 October 2011. It addresses the basic question, Why study the history of science? and the way historians and other scholars from Europe and the USA have responded to it in textbooks, programmatic articles and lectures over the last hundred years. In addition to general statements -- that the humanities as a whole contribute to the understanding of mankind, or that disciplines of this kind are important simply for their own sake -- the author suggests that answers to this question can be grouped into three types of motives under the categories Diagnosis of Civilisation, Analysis of Science, and Translation of Knowledge. According to these motives, history of science is a valuable scholarly enterprise because it has the potential to contribute to (1) the understanding of certain aspects of historical and cultural development, hence putting contemporary society and some of its major challenges in perspective; (2) the examination of the nature and dynamics of science as practice, which in the end may benefit contemporary science; and (3) the communication of knowledge about science and research, notably to policy makers and the wider public, thus making science and the academic system more transparent. The lofty status of science in society, and the need for a reflexive and critical perspective on this status, may today be regarded as a fundamental premise for all these motives.

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