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Sep 24, 2008 · This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and ‘the West’. These views are confronted with recent tendencies to cast science as a uniquely European product.
- Geert J. Somsen
- g.somsen@history.unimaas.nl
- 2008
In the first case, the history of science became a part of social and economic history; in the second case, a part of the history of philosophy. This trend in the historiography of science has given rise to a reaction among non-western countries, with each country trying to rewrite its own history of science.
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- Socialist Internationalism
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- Author Biography
That science is fundamentally universal has been proclaimed innumer-able times. But the precise geographical meaning of this universality has changed historically. This article examines conceptions of scientific internationalism from the Enlightenment to the Cold War, and their varying relations to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, socialism, and ‘the ...
Yet the Olympic model would fade. What made it give way was not the war and the tensions it created. It was the rise between the two world wars of a wholly different kind of scientific internationalism—one that espoused a different relation between science and nationalism and a different role of science in the world. Some of this change was foresha...
In a recent essay, Lorraine Daston has argued that a main function of the history of science since the Enlightenment has been ‘European self-portraiture’ (Daston 2006). It is instructive to see whether the changing (historical and non-historical) conceptions of science reviewed in this article fit her general picture. Some qualifications can be mad...
Geert Somsen is assistant professor in history of science. After a PhD in the history of chemistry, his current work focuses on socialist conceptions of science in the twentieth century and on scientific internationalism. With Harmke Kamminga, he edited Pursuing the Unity of Science: Scientific Practice and Ideology between the Great War and the Co...
- Geert J. Somsen
- 2008
Considering science from this broad historical perspective sheds light on some of the perennial questions in the philosophy of science. Philosophy of science asks questions that attempt to clarify exactly what science is, how it is different from other human endeavours, and how it works.
Aug 9, 2007 · For him, the unity of science is not the reflection of a unity found in nature, or, even less, assumed in a real world behind the apparent phenomena. Rather, it has its foundations in the unifying a priori character or function of concepts, principles and of Reason itself.
This first lecture by Dr. Hakob Barseghyan at the University of Toronto introduces key questions in the history and philosophy of science. According to popular science mythology, real science begins with the scientific revolution when science liberated itself from religion.
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6 days ago · This article provides a broad survey of the development of science as a way of studying and understanding the world, from the primitive stage of noting important regularities in nature to the epochal revolution in the notion of what constitutes reality that occurred in 20th-century physics.
