– The shock and change with Boris Essen: Towards a More Social History of Science

25 Novembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Structuralism and the influence of literary studies.

• The 1931 congress and the impact of Boris Essen on the history of science.

• Edgar Zilsel and the impact of artisans on knowledge building. New social chess on the basis of scientific modernity.

• Robert Murton and the Sociology of Science.

• Criticisms of structuralism and postmodernism.

• Roland Barthes and the author's death. Its impact on the history of science. The death of  truth.

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

 

Mandatory reading: SHAPIN, Steven, “History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions”, History of Science, 20 (1982), 157-211.