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Intro -- Series Preface -- Volume Preface -- Contents -- About the Series Editor -- About the Volume Editors -- Contributors -- Part I: Key Authors for the Historiography of Science -- 1 Pierre Duhem: Between the Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History -- Introduction -- Shared Prejudice up Until Les origines de la statique -- The Historiographic Turn: From Les origines de la statique Until Mid-1908 -- The Persistence Toward Medieval Dynamics: The Attribution of Importance to John Buridan and Nicole Oresme and Its Consequences -- The Philosophy of History -- The Idea of Providence as the Ruler of History -- The Positive Role of Errors -- The Historical Conditionings and the Search for Precursors -- A Legalistic History -- Duhemian (Dis) continuism in Question -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 2 The Origins of Alexandre Koyré´s History of Scientific Thought -- Introduction: An ``Almost Inevitable Passage´´ -- Copernicus -- Galileo -- Descartes -- The Topography of a Concept -- Uncertainty, Disarray, and the Way Out of the Crisis -- The Problem of Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 3 Gaston Bachelard and Historical Epistemology: A New Perspective for the History of Science in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- A Perspective for the History of Science: The Bachelardian Epistemology -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 4 The Case of Life in the Historiography of Modern Science: Canguilhem´s ``Biophilosophy´´ -- Introduction -- Canguilhem´s Historical Epistemology and His Time -- The Historical Epistemology of Life -- Scientific Facts as Vital Facts -- Epistemologist or Philosopher of Life? One or Many Canguilhems -- The Obstacles to Scientific Knowledge of Life -- History of Science, Historical Epistemology, and Historical Epistemology of the Life Sciences.
Biological Philosophy and Vitalist Themes -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 5 Ludwik Fleck: Thought Style and Thought Collective in the Historiography of Science -- Introduction -- The Thought Collective and Its Thought Style -- A Biological Model for the Historiography of Science -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 6 John Desmond Bernal and ``Bernalism´´ -- Introduction -- Cambridge ``High Science´´ in the 1920s -- The London 1931 Congress and the Development of History of Science -- The Social Function of Science -- War Research and History of Science -- Science in History -- History of Science at Cambridge -- ``Bernalism´´ and the New Britain -- The Decline of ``Bernalism´´ and the Birth of STS -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 7 Thomas Kuhn´s Legacy for the Historiography of Science -- Introduction -- Paradigms, Scientific Revolutions, and Incommensurability -- History Versus Philosophy: The Debate Between Kuhn and Popper -- History Versus Sociology: Kuhn and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge -- The Kuhnian Legacy: Historical and Social Aspects, Evolution and Language in the Construction of Science -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 8 Bourdieu and the Social History of Scientific Reason -- Introduction -- Biographical Sketches -- The Foundational Role of Historical Epistemology -- History and Social Temporalities -- Sociology and Social History of Science -- Beyond Logicism and Relativism: Historicist Rationalism -- Reflexivity and the Social History of Social Sciences -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 9 History of Science as History of Our Best Errors: Joseph Agassi's Critical Historiography of Science -- Introduction - The Historian´s Tasks: Explanation, Reconstruction, Assessment -- The Inductivist Approach -- The Conventionalist Approach.
The Critical Approach -- A Popperian Path -- A (Keplerian) Footnote to Agassi -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 10 Embodied Boundaries of Historical Studies of Science: A Vision of Steven Shapin´s Historiography -- Introduction -- A Sociological Wittgenstein for the History of Science -- The Mundaneness of the History of Science -- Science Incarnated -- The Boundaries of Scientific Practice -- From the Receiver of the Air-Pump to the Stomach of the Spokesman for Reality -- The Public-Private Tension in Knowledge-Making Spaces -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 11 Ian Hacking´s Contributions to Historical Reflection on Science -- Introduction -- Words in Their Sites -- Historical Ontology and Historical Meta-Epistemology -- Styles of Scientific Reasoning -- The History and Philosophy of Science in Hacking´s Project -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 12 Lorraine Daston´s Historical Epistemology: Style, Program, and School -- Introduction -- The Development of a Style: ``Historical Epistemology´´ as ``History´´ -- The Imagination of Possible -- History of Science Without Structure -- From Epistemology to the Ethos and Back Again -- The Scientific Self in Motion -- Conclusion: Historical Epistemology, Medicine, or Poison? -- Cross-References -- References -- Part II: Concepts and Conceptions in the Historiography of Science -- 13 The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions: A Philosophical Reflection -- Introduction -- A Brief History of the Concept of Scientific Revolution -- An Overview of the Main Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Revolutions -- The Unit of Analysis Reconsidered -- Scientific Development Reconsidered -- Single-Line Versus Multiline Models of Scientific Development -- The Web of Scientific Development -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References.
14 Historical Epistemology: A German Connection -- Introduction -- The Return of the Philosophy of Nature -- Science and History -- History and Philosophy -- The Structural Continuity of Scientific Concepts -- Conclusions -- Cross-References -- References -- 15 The French Style in the Philosophy of the Sciences -- Introduction -- The ``French Network´´ -- For a History of the History of the Sciences: Auguste Comte and the French Style in the Philosophy of the Sciences -- School, Tradition, or Style? -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 16 The Beginning of the Epistemological History of Science: Gaston Bachelard´s Responsibility -- Introduction -- The Origin of the Expression ``Historical Epistemology´´ -- Towards a Dialectic Between ``Follow´´ and ``Guide´´ -- What History Teaches Epistemology -- Towards the Unconscious of Scientific Practices and Theories -- Between History and Epistemology -- The ``Phenomeno-Technology´´ -- ``All History Must Be Judged´´ -- Canguilhem´s Task -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- Part III: Historiography of Science from Modern Science to Contemporary Scientific World -- 17 Early Historiography of Science -- Introduction -- The Status of Mathematics -- Scientific Biography -- The Heroization of the Scientist -- Galileo and His Followers -- The Biographical Style Spreads North: France -- English Biography of Scientists -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 18 On the Interpretations of the Cultural and Techno-Scientific Significance of Portuguese Navigations: A Historiographic Appr... -- Introduction -- António Sérgio, Jaime e Armando Cortesão: Experimentalism and the Geographical Revolution -- Joaquim Barradas De Carvalho: A Prehistory of Modern Thought -- Reijer Hooykaas: Sophisticated Empiricism and Science in Manueline Style -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References.
19 ``The Herodotus of Geometry´´: Montucla and the Birth of a General Historiography of Science in the French Enlightenment -- Introduction -- Montucla Before the Histoire des mathématiques: Between Newtonianism and Erudition -- D´Alembert and Montucla: Shaping Enlightenment Historiography of Science -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 20 Leonhard Euler´s Works on the Motion of the Moon: A Historiographical Shift -- Introduction -- Euler Moon Theory Studies: the Construction of a Research Field in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century -- A Lost Historiographical Debate: Euler´s Heritage After the Construction of the Hill-Brown Theory and the 1933 Discussion -- Euler´s Heritage After World War II -- Euler´s Moon Theory in the Historiography of Science at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- Sources -- Bibliography -- 21 The Emergence of a Sophisticated Historiography of Science in Continental Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- German Historicism and French Positivism -- German Histories of Science -- French Histories of Science -- Concluding Remarks -- Cross-References -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 22 Feynman´s Frameworks on Nanotechnology in Historiographical Debate -- An Outline -- The First Steps of a New Science -- The Structure of This Chapter -- Introduction -- There´s Plenty of Room at the Bottom -- Defining Nanotechnology in the Years -- Plenty of Room, Crossing the History -- Nanotechnology as a Hidden Scientific Revolution -- Is a Founding Document Necessary? -- Should We Consider Feynman a Necessary Pioneer? -- Addendum to the Historiographical POR Debate -- Reading POR in the Timeline Literature -- Historiographical Approaches -- Is POR an Evident Cornerstone? -- Historiography of a Scientific Debate -- Concluding Remarks.
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