Article ID: CBB308758308

Integrated HPS? Formal versus historical approaches to philosophy of science (2021)

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The project of integrated HPS (‘integrated history and philosophy of science’) has occupied philosophers of science in one form or another since at least the 1960s. Yet, despite this substantial interest in bringing together philosophical and historical reflections on the nature of science, history of science and formal philosophy of science remain as divided as ever. In this paper, I will argue that the continuing separation between historical and formal philosophy of science is ill-founded. I will argue for this in both abstract and concrete terms. At the abstract level, I reconstruct two possible arguments for the incompatibility of historical and formal philosophy of science and argue that they are both wanting. At the concrete level, I discuss how historical and formal philosophy of science have been brought together in practice, namely: in the form of a largely forgotten research tradition that I will refer to here as the study of formalized macro-units. After a brief exposition, I argue that this research tradition has been unduly overlooked by historically minded philosophers of science. Bringing together these observations, I argue that the divide between historical and formal philosophy of science is not grounded in any substantive arguments, but can be primarily attributed to disciplinary happenstance.

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Authors & Contributors
Duančić, Vedran
Louro, Ivo
Paula Urze
Wan, Yanlan
João Machado
Ma, Yongjun
Concepts
History of science, as a discipline
Academic disciplines
Philosophy of science, as a discipline
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Historiography
Science and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
China
Lisbon (Portugal)
Poland
Italy
France
Canada
Institutions
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Seminario di Storia della scienza
Science History Institute (SHI)
University of Toronto
Université de Paris
University of Melbourne
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