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INTEGRATING HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Editors ROBERTS.COHEN,BostonUniversity JÜRGENRENN,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience KOSTASGAVROGLU,UniversityofAthens ManagingEditor LINDYDIVARCI,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience EditorialBoard THEODOREARABATZIS,UniversityofAthens ALISABOKULICH,BostonUniversity HEATHERE.DOUGLAS,UniversityofPittsburgh JEANGAYON,UniversitéParis1 THOMASF.GLICK,BostonUniversity HUBERTGOENNER,UniversityofGoettingen JOHNHEILBRON,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley DIANAKORMOS-BUCHWALD,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology CHRISTOPHLEHNER,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience PETERMCLAUGHLIN,UniversitätHeidelberg AGUSTÍNIETO-GALAN,UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona NUCCIOORDINE,UniversitádellaCalabria ANASIMÕES,UniversidadedeLisboa JOHNJ.STACHEL,BostonUniversity SYLVANS.SCHWEBER,HarvardUniversity BAICHUNZHANG,ChineseAcademyofScience VOLUME263 Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5710 INTEGRATING HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Problems and Prospects Editedby SEYMOUR MAUSKOPF DukeUniversity,Durham,NC,USA TAD SCHMALTZ UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI,USA 123 Editors SeymourMauskopf TadSchmaltz DukeUniversity UniversityofMichiganPhilosophy History SouthStateSt.435 Durham 48109-1003AnnArbor USA Michigan [email protected] USA [email protected] ISSN0068-0346 ISBN978-94-007-1744-2 e-ISBN978-94-007-1745-9 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-1745-9 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011935944 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 SeymourMauskopfandTadSchmaltz PartI GeneralReflections 2 Thomas Kuhn and Interdisciplinary Conversation: Why Historians and Philosophers of Science Stopped TalkingtoOneAnother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 JanGolinski 3 TheHistoryandPhilosophyofScienceHistory . . . . . . . . . . . 29 DavidMarshallMiller 4 WhatinTruthDividesHistoriansandPhilosophersofScience? . . 49 KennethL.Caneva 5 HistoryandPhilosophyofScience:Thirty-FiveYearsLater . . . . 59 RonaldN.Giere 6 PhilosophyofScienceandItsHistoricalReconstructions . . . . . . 67 PeterDear 7 TheUnderdeterminationDebate:HowLackofHistory LeadstoBadPhilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 WolfgangPietsch PartII CaseStudies 8 BeyondCase-Studies:HistoryasPhilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 HasokChang 9 HiddenEntitiesandExperimentalPractice: Renewing theDialogueBetweenHistoryandPhilosophyofScience . . . . . . 125 TheodoreArabatzis v vi Contents 10 Scientists’MethodsAccounts:S.WeirMitchell’sResearch ontheVenomofPoisonousSnakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 JuttaSchickore 11 QuantumGravityMeets&HPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 DeanRickles 12 History and Philosophy of Science at Work: MakingRegenerativeMedicineResearchBetter. . . . . . . . . . . 201 JaneMaienschein 13 SocialEpistemologyofStemCellResearch:Philosophy andExperiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 MelindaBonnieFagan Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Contributors TheodoreArabatzis DepartmentofPhilosophyandHistoryofScience, UniversityofAthens,UniversityCampus,AnoIlisia,15771Athens,Greece, [email protected] KennethL.Caneva UniversityofNorthCarolinaatGreensboro,Greensboro, NC,USA,[email protected] HasokChang UniversityofCambridge,Cambridge,UK,[email protected] PeterDear CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA,[email protected] MelindaBonnieFagan RiceUniversity,Houston,TX,USA,[email protected] RonaldN.Giere UniversityofMinnesota,Minnesota,MN,USA, [email protected] JanGolinski UniversityofNewHampshire,Durham,NH,USA, [email protected] JaneMaienschein ArizonaStateUniversity,Tempe,AZ,USA, [email protected] SeymourMauskopf DukeUniversity,Durham,NC,USA,[email protected] DavidMarshallMiller DukeUniversity,Durham,NC,USA, [email protected] WolfgangPietsch CarlvonLinde-Akademie,TechnischeUniversitätMünchen, München,Germany,[email protected] DeanRickles UniversityofSydney,Sydney,NSW,Australia, [email protected] JuttaSchickore IndianaUniversity,Bloomington,IN,USA, [email protected] TadSchmaltz UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI,USA, [email protected] vii ThisisBlankPageIntegra viii About the Authors Theodore Arabatzis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the author of Representing Electrons: A BiographicalApproachtoTheoreticalEntities(Chicago,2006). Kenneth L. Caneva is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.HeistheauthorofPossibleKuhnsintheHistoryofScienceofScience: Anomolies of Incommensurable Paradigms (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,2000). HasokChangisProfessorofPhilosophyofScienceatUniversityCollegeLondon. He is the author of Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress (Oxford,2006). Peter Dear is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of The IntelligibilityofNature:HowScienceMakesSenseoftheWorld(Chicago,2006). MelindaBonnieFaganisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatRiceUniversity.She istheauthorofTheSearchfortheHematopoeticStemCell:SocialInteractionand EpistemicSuccessinImmunology(StudiesinHistoryandPhilosophyofBiological andBiomedicalSciences,2007). Ronald N. Giere is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota.HeistheauthorofScientificPerspectivism(Chicago,2006). Jan Golinski is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and theHistoryofScience(Chicago,2005). JaneMaienscheinisRegent’sProfessorintheSchoolofLifeSciencesatArizona State University. She is the author of Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning and StemCells(Harvard,2003). Seymour Mauskopf is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Duke University (specialty, history of science). His most recent publication is “The Historiography of Science and Technology” (with Alex Roland), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945 (Oxford, 2011). ix