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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
WHOSE EXPERIENCE? WHOSE SCIENCE?
Jerry Hackett
Department of Philosophy
University of South Carolina, Columbia
November 4, 2003
Tuesday, 12:30pm
Preston Seminar Room
My paper will be on the Historiography of Science. I will examine modern
accounts of the transition from Ancient/Medieval to Modern understandings
of the scope of science. The paper will begin with the assessments of
A.C.Crombie and David C. Lindberg on the reaction to Pierre Duhem's claim
that moden science began in the Middle Ages. The main part of the paper
will be an examination of the place of Philosophy of Science in the various
stages of Martin Heidegger's philosophical reflections. The recent
publication of his Beitrage zur Philosophie has done much to re-orientate
estimates of his thought. It is very clear that from 1934 onward, he was
much concerned with the impact of Science as Research on the
self-understanding of Philosophy and on the general structure of the
traditional University. It is very clear that different understandings of
the nature of science helped change his estimate of the scope of
philosophy. Also, changes in his concept of philosophy altered his
estimates of science and technology.
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