Gavroglu K., Renn J. (eds.) Positioning the History of Science

Springer, 2007. - 188 pp.
The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives. Readers will find it illuminating to learn how prominent authors judge the current status and the future perspectives of their field. Students will find this volume helpful as a guide in a fragmented field that continues to be dominated by idiosyncratic expertise and that still lacks a methodical canon. The essays were written in response to the invitation to explicate the views of the authors concerning the state of the history of science today and the issues related to its future. This volume can be considered as a rather comprehensive survey of the present state of the history of science.Positioning the History of Science (by Kostas Gavroglu and Jürgen Renn).
Big History? (by Babak Ashrafi).
Suggestions for the Study of Science (by Stephen G. Brush).
Will Einstein Still be the Super-Hero of Physics History in 2050? (by Tian Yu Cao).
For a History of Knowledge (by Olivier Darrigol).
Working in Parallel, Working Together (by Lorraine Daston).
Challenges in Writing About Twentieth Century East Asian Physicists (by Dong-Won Kim (Jhu)).
Why Should Scientists Become Historians? (by Raphael Falk and Ruma Falk).
From the Social to the Moral to the Spiritual: The Postmodern Exaltation of the History of Science (by Paul Forman).
Between Science and History (by Evelyn Fox Keller).
The Search for Autonomy in History of Science (by Yves Gingras).
Without Parallels?: Averting a Schweberian Dystopia (by Michael D. Gordin).
The Intellectual Strengths of Pluralism and Diversity (by Loren Graham).
On Connoisseurship (by John L. Heilbron).
Concerning Energy (by Steve Joshua Heims).
Reflections on a Discipline (by Erwin N. Hiebert).
The Woman in Einstein’s Shadow (by Gerald Holton).
The Mutual Embrace: Institutions and Epistemology (by David Kaiser).
History, Science, and History of Science (by Helge Kragh).
Parallel Lives and The History of Science (by Mary Jo Nye).
Discarding Dichotomies, Creating Community: Sam Schweber and Darwin Studies (by Diane B. Paul and John Beatty).
Public Participation and Industrial Technoscience Today: The difficult question of accountability (by Dominique Pestre).
The Character of Truth (by Joan Richards).
Schweber, Physicist, Historian and Moral Example (by José M. Sánchez-Ron).
What’s New in Science? (by Terry Shinn).
On the Road (by Skúli Sigurdsson).
Plutarchian Versus Socratic Scientific Biography (by Thomas Söderqvist).
Problems Not Disciplines (by John Stachel).
Physicist-Historians (by Roger H. Stuewer).
Letting the Scientists Back In (by Stephen J. Weininger).
Science As History (by M. Norton Wise).
Postscript (by Sam Schweber).