Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science
Author: Lukas M. Verburgt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350326224

Debating New Approaches to the History of Science explores the big questions in the history of science and the main problems and challenges it is facing today. In each chapter, established and emerging scholars introduce new approaches to the history of science and revisit older perspectives which remain crucial, before providing a critical analysis of the perspective. The volume looks at topics such as the importance of the 'environmental turn' for the history of science and the possibilities for the field of moving beyond a focus on ideas and texts towards active engagement with materials and practices. It asks important questions such as 'what does it mean to study science's past in the Anthropocene?' and 'what are the prospects and limits of the 'material' and 'performative' turns?' Each chapter introduces and discusses new approaches to the history of science, and concludes with a critical commentary from another scholar in the field. With this innovative format, Debating New Approaches to the History of Science does not just provide a useful overview of the field, but it also offers insights into the process of historiography as it evolves. As such, it is essential reading for students and scholars studying contemporary developments in the history of science.

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science
Author: Lukas M. Verburgt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350326232

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodological agenda. In its chapters, established and emerging scholars introduce and discuss new approaches to the history of science and revisit older perspectives which remain crucial. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at such topics as the importance of the 'global', 'digital', 'environmental', and 'posthumanist' turns for the history of science, and the possibilities for the field of moving beyond a focus on ideas and texts towards active engagement with materials and practices. It also addresses important issues about the relationship between history of science, on the one hand, and philosophy of science, history of knowledge and ignorance studies, on the other. With its innovative format, this volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative overview of the field, and also explores how and why the history of science is practiced. It is essential reading for students and scholars eager to keep a finger on the pulse of what is happening in the history of science today, and to contribute to where it might go next.

Debating New Approaches to History

Debating New Approaches to History
Author: Marek Tamm
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474281931

With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at topics such as the importance and consequences of the 'digital turn' in history (what will history writing be like in a digital age?), the challenge of posthumanist theory for history writing (how do we write the history of non-humans?) and the possibilities of moving beyond traditional sources in history and establishing a dialogue with genetics and neurosciences (what are the perspectives and limits of the so-called 'neurohistory'?). It also revisits older debates in history which remain crucial, such as what the gender approach can offer to historical research or how to write history on a global scale. Debating New Approaches to History does not just provide a useful overview of the new approaches to history it covers, but also offers insights into current historical debates and the process of historical method in the making. It demonstrates how the discipline of history has responded to challenges in society – such as digitalization, globalization and environmental concerns – as well as in humanities and social sciences, such as the 'material turn', 'visual turn' or 'affective turn'. This is a key volume for all students of historiography wanting to keep their finger on the pulse of contemporary thinking in historical research.

Debating Science

Debating Science
Author: Dane Scott
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781616144999

Scholars and experts focus on the larger moral context around the controversies over scientific research and technological innovations with accessible essays, original to this volume, which emphasize ethical deliberation rather than adversarial debate.

Has Science Displaced the Soul?

Has Science Displaced the Soul?
Author: Kevin J. Sharpe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780742542648

Religion tells us that God is love but neuroscience counters with love as a well-timed trickle of transmitters and hormones. With doctorates in both mathematics and theology, Kevin Sharpe explores these notions and asks the question Has Science Displaced the Soul?

Debating Moral Education

Debating Moral Education
Author: Elizabeth Kiss
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2010-01-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0822391597

After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both inside and outside the academy. In this collection, renowned scholars of philosophy, politics, and religion debate the role of ethics in the university, investigating whether universities should proactively cultivate morality and ethics, what teaching ethics entails, and what moral education should accomplish. The essays quickly open up to broader questions regarding the very purpose of a university education in modern society. Editors Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben survey the history of ethics in higher education, then engage with provocative recent writings by Stanley Fish in which he argues that universities should not be involved in moral education. Stanley Hauerwas responds, offering a theological perspective on the university’s purpose. Contributors look at the place of politics in moral education; suggest that increasingly diverse, multicultural student bodies are resources for the teaching of ethics; and show how the debate over civic education in public grade-schools provides valuable lessons for higher education. Others reflect on the virtues and character traits that a moral education should foster in students—such as honesty, tolerance, and integrity—and the ways that ethical training formally and informally happens on campuses today, from the classroom to the basketball court. Debating Moral Education is a critical contribution to the ongoing discussion of the role and evolution of ethics education in the modern liberal arts university. Contributors. Lawrence Blum, Romand Coles, J. Peter Euben, Stanley Fish, Michael Allen Gillespie, Ruth W. Grant, Stanley Hauerwas, David A. Hoekema, Elizabeth Kiss, Patchen Markell, Susan Jane McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams, J. Donald Moon, James Bernard Murphy, Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben, George Shulman, Elizabeth V. Spelman

Global Transformations

Global Transformations
Author: David Held
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804736275

In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military globalization, trade, finance, corporate productivity, migration, culture, and the environment. Each of these topics is covered in a chapter which contrasts the contemporary nature of globalization with that of earlier epochs. In mapping the shape and political consequences of globalization, the authors concentrate on six states in advanced capitalist societies (SIACS): the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and Japan. For comparative purposes, other states—particularly those with developing economics—are referred to and discussed where relevant. The book concludes by systematically describing and assessing contemporary globalization, and appraising the implications of globalization for the sovereignty and autonomy of SIACS. It also confronts directly the political fatalism that surrounds much discussion of globalization with a normative agenda that elaborates the possibilities for democratizing and civilizing the unfolding global transformation.

Debating in the World Schools Style

Debating in the World Schools Style
Author: Simon Quinn
Publisher: IDEA
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781932716559

Offers students an overview of the world schools style of debating, with expert advice for every stage of the process, including preparation, rebuttal, style, reply speeches, and points of information.

Philosophy of History

Philosophy of History
Author: Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350111864

With a recent surge of interest in the field, a volume taking stock of important theoretical shifts in the philosophy of history is greatly needed. A Philosophy of History fills this gap by weaving together a range of perspectives on the field which finds itself at a crossroads, and asks where it is headed in the 21st century. The book takes a concerted effort to go beyond the customary three-fold distinction between the speculative, analytic and narrativist approaches in philosophy of history. It considers, what comes after the enduring 'narrativist turn'. Chapters incorporate cutting-edge discussions on the relevance of contemporary political phenomena such as populism, the relation between science and history, pragmatism and the paradigmatic challenge of the Anthropocene. It also re-evaluates the continued relevance of major historical thinkers like Leibniz and R.G. Collingwood, and the endlessly fresh insights they can offer to key debates in the field today. Philosophy of History is a much-needed reappraisal of the philosophy and theory of history; offering an up-to-date overview of major developments in the field, and addressing the pressing questions of where to go next in a 'post-analytical', 'post-narrativist' world.

Seeking Good Debate

Seeking Good Debate
Author: Michael S. Evans
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520285085

"Religion and science often appear to cause conflict in American public life. But why? This book reports the results from the first study to combine large-scale empirical analysis of multiple "religion and science" debates with in-depth research into what Americans actually want from public life. The surprising finding is that apparent conflicts involving religion and science reflect a more fundamental conflict between media elites and ordinary Americans over what good debate should be, raising profound questions about the future of the public sphere and American democracy"--Provided by publisher.