Papers’ presentation and their discussion

16 Dezembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Oral presentation of students’ final essay. 

Papers’ presentation and their discussion

16 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Oral presentation of students’ final essay. 

Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

9 Dezembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Kuhn is the most cited book of history of science of the twentieth century.

• His definition of the role of history in science.

• The concept of paradigm and the transitions of mental universes. Ruptures and revolutions in temporal continuity.

• Normal science and the urge to break. The rationality and irrationality of the process. The generational question and its potentialities.

• Latour and Life in the Lab.

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

Mandatory reading: BIRD, Alexander, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” and its Significance: An Essay Review of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, nº 4 (December 2012), pp. 859-883.

Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

9 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Kuhn is the most cited book of history of science of the twentieth century.

• His definition of the role of history in science.

• The concept of paradigm and the transitions of mental universes. Ruptures and revolutions in temporal continuity.

• Normal science and the urge to break. The rationality and irrationality of the process. The generational question and its potentialities.

• Latour and Life in the Lab.

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

Mandatory reading: BIRD, Alexander, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” and its Significance: An Essay Review of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, nº 4 (December 2012), pp. 859-883.

The construction of a discipline: actors, institutions, magazines

2 Dezembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Topics under discussion in the historiography of science since its genesis as a discipline. Dichotomies in action: internalist vs externalist.

• George Sarton: History of Science as a New Humanism

• The History of Urban Science and the Spatial Turn

• History of Colonial Sciences and History of Postcolonial Sciences

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

Mandatory reading: A. THACKRAY, R.K. MERTON, “On Discipline Building: The Paradoxes of George Sarton,” Isis, 63 (1972), 472-495.