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arXiv 2002.01300physics.hist-ph
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在欧洲

In Europe

Jeroen van Dongen

摘要:

当总部设在美国的科学史学会在欧洲大陆的主要学术中心之一乌得勒支举行年会时,人们可能会怀疑该领域已经回到了家里。然而,这很难反映当今学术界的构成:在科学史学中,“欧洲地方化”已成为一个重要主题,而该领域本身,就像整个学术界的情况一样,主要围绕着美国文学。与此同时,自从科学史家很久以前就从科学中解放出来以来,他们在公众的视野中经常表现为质疑而不是寻求支持科学的权威。这种情况是如何发生的,它告诉了我们今天生活的世界什么?科学史研究寻求什么样的洞见,获得什么样的公共利益?当我们试图回答这些问题时,我们将跟随一些关键的20世纪中期历史学家-爱德华·戴克斯特赫伊斯、托马斯·库恩和马丁·克莱因-在他们横渡大西洋的过程中。他们对关于早期现代科学革命的构成或马克斯·普朗克工作的新颖性的辩论的回答将说明“中心”和“边缘”的概念是如何转变的-以及这可能告诉我们今天“在欧洲”的情况。

英文摘要:

As the History of Science Society, which is based in America, holds its annual meeting in Utrecht, one of the key academic centers on the European continent, one may surmise that the field has returned home. Yet, this hardly reflects how today's world of scholarship is constituted: in the historiography of science, 'provincializing Europe' has become an important theme, while the field itself, as is the case across the world of academia, is centered around a predominantly American literature. At the same time, ever since historians of science have emancipated themselves from the sciences a long time ago, they often have appeared, in the public eye, to question rather than to seek to bolster the authority of the sciences. How has this situation come about, and what does it tell us about the world we live in today? What insight is sought and what public benefit is gained by the historical study of science? As we try to answer these questions, we will follow a number of key mid-twentieth century historians--Eduard Dijksterhuis, Thomas Kuhn and Martin Klein--in their Atlantic crossings. Their answers to debates on the constitution of the early modern scientific revolution or the novelty of the work of Max Planck will illustrate how notions of 'center' and 'periphery' have shifted--and what that may tell us about being 'in Europe' today.

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