&HPS7
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Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: Seventh Conference
5–7 July, 2018
Hannover University, Germany; co-sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Item Absolute Measurement and the Second Quantification of Physics(2018) Mitchell, Daniel; dmitchell@sciencehistory.orgItem Zombie Data from Babylon(2018) Nora Boyd; nboyd@siena.eduItem Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind(2018) Kevin Laland; knl1@st-andrews.ac.ukItem Linking theoretical content and context: a carrier-trait approach(2018) Gábor Zemplén; zemplen@filozofia.bme.huItem Reconstructing Maxwell’s Methodological Continuity(2018) Cameron Lazaroff-Puck; lazar114@umn.eduItem The Ups and Downs of Newton’s Rule 3: A Case Study in the Evolution of Philosophical Concepts(2018) Zvi Biener; zvi.biener@uc.eduItem Integrating Narratives and Model Analysis: New Epistemic Tools for iHPS(2018) Julia Sanchez-Dorado; Claudia Cristalli; julia.sanchez-dorado@ucl.ac.uk; claudia.cristalli.15@ucl.ac.ukItem The Chemical Revolution and Perspectivism(2018) Franklin Jacoby; s1320984@sms.ed.ac.ukItem Evolution of knowledge: history of materials – the case of saltpeter(2018) Silvia Waisse; Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb; Marcia H.M. Ferraz; dr.silvia.waisse@gmail.comItem Prehistoric Stone Tool Technology and the Evolution of Cognitive Behavior(2018) Manjari Chakrabarty; manchakrabarty@gmail.comItem Plurality in Medicine: Some Aspects of Scientific Pluralism in the Context of Application(2018) Basel Myhub; basel.myhub@uni-bielefeld.deItem Building Blocks and the Principle of Plurality: Model-Building Heuristics in Long-Term Research Collectives(2018) Kärin Nickelsen; K.Nickelsen@lmu.deItem Narrating the Unobservable: On the historical-philosophical study of the relation between experiments and entities(2018) Jan Potters; Jan.Potters@UAntwerpen.beItem Coordination of biophysical and biochemical research, 1920s and 1930s(2018) Caterina Schürch; Caterina.Schuerch@lrz.uni-muenchen.deItem The function and limit of Galileo’s falling bodies thought experiment: Absolute weight, specific weight and the medium’s resistance(2018) Rawad El Skaf; rawadskaff@gmail.comThe ongoing epistemological debate on scientific thought experiments (TEs) revolves, in part, around the now famous Galileo’s falling bodies TE and how it could justify its conclusions. In this paper, I argue that the TE’s function is misrepresented in this a-historical debate. I retrace the history of this TE and show that it constituted the first step in two general “argumentative strategies”, excogitated by Galileo to defend two different theories of free-fall, in 1590’s and then in the 1638. I analyse both argumentative strategies and argue that their function was to eliminate potential causal factors: the TE serving to eliminate absolute weight as a causal factor, while the subsequent arguments served to explore the effect of specific weight, with conflicting conclusions in 1590 and 1638. I will argue thorough the paper that the TE is best grasped when we analyse Galileo’s restriction, in the TE’s scenario and conclusion, to bodies of the same material or specific weight. Finally, I will draw out two implications for the debate on TEs.Item Rethinking the ‘Confrontation Model’: on the Philosophical Presuppositions of the Project of Integrating History and Philosophy of Science(2018) Thodoris Dimitrakos; thdimitrakos@phs.uoa.grItem Heavenly Order: Concept Dynamics, Mathematical Practices, and the Stability of the Solar System(2018) Massimiliano Badino; massimiliano.badino@univr.itThe proof of the stability of the solar system has been customarily presented as the solution of a great riddle originated by Newton and completed by Laplace. In this paper, I suggest a different narrative. I argue that Newton considered the stability of the solar system more a theological problem than a physical one and that he never raised the question whether the system is stable or unstable. After the introduction of analytical techniques, astronomers and mathematicians, concerned especially with practical problems such as the behavior of the Moon and with the improvement of perturbation theory, also largely neglected the issue of stability. It was only in 1781, when the cultural and scientific conditions were ripe, that Lagrange, not Laplace, finally set and solved, according to the standard of the time, the stability problem.Item The .05 level of significance and the economy of research(2018) Cornelis Menke; cmenke@uni-mainz.deItem Conceptions of experimental control in 19th-century life sciences(2018) Jutta Schickore; jschicko@indiana.edu.This article presents a new framework for the analysis of experimental control. The framework highlights different functions for experimental controls in the realization of an experiment: experimental controls that serve as tests and experimental controls that serve as probes. The approach to experimental control proposed here can illuminate the constitutive role of controls in knowledge production, and it sheds new light on the notion of exploratory experimentation. It also clarifies what can and what cannot be expected from reviewers of scientific journal articles giving feedback on experimental controls.