Conference: The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis, March 2007; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

会议：精确科学的文化炼金术：重温福尔曼论文，2007 年 3 月；

• 批准号: 0621179
• 负责人: Cathryn Carson
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0621179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Cultural; Alchemy; Exact; Sciences

Conference: The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences:Revisiting the Forman Thesis,March 2007Intellectual MeritsThis grant supports a conference organized by the co-PIs (Cathryn Carson and AlexeiKojevnikov) to debate a classic problem in the history of modern science, the Forman thesis on the influence of Weimar culture on quantum mechanics. Formans essay of 1971 deeply affected the work of a generation of historians and contributed powerfully to the emergence of the sociology of scientific knowledge. Although one of the most cited works in the field, it nevertheless cannot be considered generally accepted, but, on the contrary, remains the subject of widely diverging opinions and scholarly positions. Broader Impacts The goal of the meeting is to foster critical dialogue, bringing the classic formulations of Formans problem into interaction with the wealth of new empirical studies and more recent methodological developments and to make the results widely available in a special journal issue. The conference will help pull together a new community of scholars, many of them younger researchers, and spur collective reflection on contemporary trends and promising targets of future investigation. In line with the Forman thesis foundational significance, the projects impacts range broadly. The conference talks will be opened to the public, including possibly a large graduate student gathering. The published product will be a resource for graduate teachingin the history and philosophy of science. Moreover, the widely recognized status of modern physics as a test case for the new cultural history of science means that its findings will carry far afield.

会议：精确科学的文化炼金术：重新审视福尔曼论文，2007年3月，这是智力优点，这笔赠款支持Co-Pis（Cathryn Carson和Alexeikojevnikov）组织的一次会议，以辩论现代科学史上的经典问题，对Weimar Cultion of Weimar Cultion of量级机械的影响。 1971年的Formans论文深深影响了一代历史学家的工作，并为科学知识社会学的出现做出了有力的贡献。尽管该领域中最被引用的作品之一，但不能被认为是普遍接受的，但相反，它仍然是广泛不同的观点和学术立场的主题。会议的目标是促进批判性对话的更广泛的影响，将Formans问题的经典表述带入与新的经验研究和最新方法论发展的互动，并在特殊期刊问题中广泛使用结果。该会议将有助于结合一个新的学者社区，其中许多是年轻的研究人员，并刺激集体反思当代趋势和未来研究的有前途的目标。与福尔曼论文的基础意义相符，这些项目的影响范围很大。会议会议将向公众开放，包括可能的大型研究生聚会。已发表的产品将是教授科学历史和哲学的研究生的资源。此外，现代物理学作为新科学文化史的测试案例的广泛认可的地位意味着它的发现将占据很远的地方。