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HOPOS Newsletter 012003.Pub Fall-Winter 2002-2003 Volume VII, Issue 2 Newsletter of HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science ISSN 1544-9912 (formerly 1527-9332) Inside this issue: The breadth of our group is From the Editor evident in this issue of the This issue of the Newsletter ing in a more regular and Newsletter, which features a From the Editor 1 breaks all past records for organized fashion—not to say regional map of HOPOS- publication delays. Perhaps rigidly!—much like our sister related resources in Scotland the delays can be justified by scholarly societies, such as (by Andrew Aberdein), and Bay Area Selected for 1 the significant news regarding PSA and HSS. reviews of books on Kant’s HOPOS 2004 Meeting our organization. Opus postumum (Eckart These changes have been Förster’s collection of essays, On the heels of our most suc- pursued to help the progress reviewed by Eric Palmer), News of the Profession 2 cessful conference so far—in of HOPOS towards status as Tycho Brahe’s scientific en- an independently incorpo- Seminars, Conferences, Montréal this past June— terprise (Robert Christian- HOPOS has taken leaps and rated non-profit entity. That and Colloquia son’s volume, reviewed by bounds in its maturation as a status is the next step in our Pawel Kawalec), foundations scholarly society. A first evolution, and is currently of QM (W. Michael Dick- Memorial Notes 3 step, which the reader may being sought. The rationale son’s volume, reviewed by notice from the Newsletter for all these changes is that Steven French), and Gödel’s masthead, is that the organi- we have, over some ten years, thought (André Delessert’s Jobs, Fellowships, and 4 zation’s name has changed to grown as a scholarly society volume, reviewed by Jean- other Opportunities * HOPOS, the International to the point where our own Pierre Belna). Society for the History of expectations and aspira- Electronic and Finally, readers may note that Scholarly Resources Philosophy of Science (we tions—and those expressed are a Working Group no by others—demand the full- the next elections under our more). A second step is that blown apparatus of a mature new structure require dues- Books, Publication 5 we have adopted more thor- and legally incorporated or- paying membership to cast an Series, and Journals * ough by-laws to help govern ganization. We are confident eligible ballot. Please join Society News our organization. These can that none of this will diminish HOPOS ‘officially’ to ensure your full participation! be viewed in detail on the the informal culture of our HOPOS website, but a central group. Indeed, in this transi- Awards and Calls for 5 Best, theme guiding the new by- tional period, as always, the Papers Saul Fisher laws is that we will be operat- input of the broad HOPOS family is critical. ! Regional Maps of 6 HOPOS Activity and Infrastructure: Scotland San Francisco Selected for HOPOS 2004 Meeting The Fifth Congress of HOPOS, cooperation with Stanford Uni- dates will be available soon, on Book Reviews 13 the International Working versity and the University of the HOPOS-L mailing list. Group in History of Philosophy California, Berkeley. The con- David Stump of Science, will be held in San ference is open to scholarly University of San Francisico Francisco, California (USA) in work on the history of philoso- HOPOS 2004 June or July 2004. phy of science from any disci- Local Organizing Committee About HOPOS 20 plinary perspective. A detailed The congress will be held at the call for papers and conference University of San Francisco, in ! Newsletter of Page 2 HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science on the Local and the Global: ([email protected]). News of the profession. Contexts in Science and Technology • June 1-6, 2003 Vaxjo University, Sweden Call for Reports. For information, go to For information, go to International Conference on http://www.ivh.au.dk/ http://www.gwu.edu/~cistp/stgl Quantum Theory: Reconsid- The Newsletter features sciencepopularisation or con- obal.html or contact David eration of Foundations-2 occasional, concise reports tact Anita Kildebaek Nielsen Bruggeman ([email protected]). For information, go to on conferences of interest ([email protected]). to HOPOI. If you are • May 1-4, 2003 http://www.msi.vxu.se/aktuellt/ interested in writing such • March 27-29, 2003 Bjerringbro, Denmark konferens/Quantum.pdf or st contact cecilia.eriksson reports, please contact the Clare College, Cambridge, UK 1 Nordic post-graduate work- Conference on Platonism at the shop in History of Science and @msi.vxu.se. Editor. Origins of Modernity Technology • June 20-22, 2003 Sponsored by the British Soci- For information, go to Milan (Italy) ety for the History of Philoso- http://www.ivh.au.dk/ Seminars, Workshop on Migrant Scien- phy. For information, go to nordicworkshop. tists in the Twentieth Century http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/bs Conferences, and Sponsored by the Istituto di hp/fconfs/plato/plato.htm or • May 5-6, 2003 Fisica Generale Applicata of Colloquia. contact David Leech REHSEIS and IHPST, Paris Conferences on Measurement the Università degli Studi di ([email protected]). th • March 11-May 27, 2003 in the 19 Century and Today Milano and Science Studies Université de Paris 7 • April 2-3, 2003 For information, contact Anouk Group of the Universidad Scientific Knowledge: Episte- Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris Barberousse (barberou@ Nacional de Colombia. For mology, History of Science, Conference on Method in philosophie.ens.fr). information, contact Alexis De and Disciplinary Didactics Mathematics Greiff ([email protected]) • May 17, 2003 Weekly seminar of Dominique Sponsored by the Institut de or Leonardo Gariboldi CNAM, Paris Lecourt. For information, con- Recherche sur l’Enseignement ([email protected]). Annual General Assembly, tact [email protected]. des Mathématiques, Université Société Française d’Histoire • June 23-July 18, 2003 Paris VII. For information, go to Virginia Tech, VA • March 15-16, 2003 http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/irem des Sciences et des Techniques NEH Summer Seminar: Leibniz Virginia Tech, VA Paris7/ or contact Michel Ser- For information, contact Anne and His Contemporaries Galileo in Blacksburg fati ([email protected]). Bonnefoy (anne.bonnefoy@ Directors: Roger Ariew and For information, go to pictascience.org). • April 6-10, 2004 Daniel Garber. For informa- http://www.phil.vt.edu/ariew/ • May 18, 2003 galileo.htm. Interdisciplinary Centre for tion, go to http://www. European Enlightenment Studies, University of Western Ontario, phil.vt.edu/ariew/neh.html. • March 21-23, 2003 Martin Luther Universität London, ON, Canada th June 23-July 25, 2003 University of Missouri, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 4 Annual Graduate Confer- • ence in Logic, Math, and Phys- University of Pittsburgh St. Louis, MO Conference on Christian Wolff th 5th Annual St. Louis Philosophy & the European Enlightenment ics (in conjunction with the 8 NEH Summer Institute: Sci- of Social Science Roundtable For information, go to Annual Conference in Contem- ence and Values Directors: Sandra D. Mitchell For information, go to http:// http://www.izea.uni-halle.de or porary Issues in Philosophy of and Peter K. Machamer. For www.umsl.edu/~philo/ contact Juergen Stolzenberg Physics—May 17, 2003) information go to http://www.pitt. roundtable.htm or contact (wolffkongress@izea. For information, go to http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/lmp. edu/~pkmach/valuesci.htm or James Bohman uni-halle.de). contact [email protected]. ([email protected]). • May 24-25, 2003 • April 11-13, 2003 • June 27-July 2, 2003 • March 26-28, 2003 Center for the History and Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Lisbon & Coimbra, Portugal Maison des Sciences de Philosophy of Science, * Colloquium on Common l'Homme, Paris Johns Hopkins University, Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy Sense and Scientific Knowledge Colloquium: Philosophy of Baltimore, MD Museu da Água and Nature Today? Conference on Inaugural Meeting For information, contact Sean Museu e Jardim Botânico, Lisbon For information, contact Joseph Scientific Evidence * Colloquium on Savants, Greenberg ([email protected]). Kouneiher (kouneiher@paris7. For information, contact Peter Voyages, Expeditions, and jussieu.fr) or go to Achinstein (peter.achinstein@ • May 29-31 2003 Institutions http://www.sigu7.jussieu.fr/hpr jhu.edu) or go to http://www.jhu. Halifax, Nova Scotia Faculty of Letters, /colloque.html. edu/~phil/center/conference.html Universidade de Coimbra Annual conference of the th Canadian Society for History 10 anniversary colloquia for • March 27, 2003 • April 12-13, 2003 the Exchange Network of the History of Science Department, American Association for the and Philosophy of Science For information, go to History and Epistemology of University of Aarhus, Denmark Advancement of Science, the Chemical and Biological Workshop on the history of Washington, DC http://www.ukings.ns.ca/cshps/ or contact Jean Leroux Sciences (RIHECQB). For science in public culture Graduate Student Conference (Continued on page 3) Newsletter of HOPOS, The International Society for the Page 3 History of Philosophy of Science Seminars, Conferences, and Colloquia. • September 24-26, 2003 Memorial notes. Paris, France International meeting on information, contact • July 17-19, 2003 Correspondence and History of • Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) [email protected] or go to http:// Queen's University Belfast Biology (18th-20th Centuries) Merton was author of Science, www.triplov.com/ana_luisa/ British Society for the Jointly sponsored by the Centre Technology and Society in rotas_natura.doc. Philosophy of Science Alexandre Koyré, Muséum Seventeenth-Century England Annual Conference National d’Histoire Naturelle, (1938/1970), Social Theory and • July 7-9, 2003 For information, contact David and Université Paris I- Social Structure (1949/1968), IHR, University of London On the Shoulders of Giants th Evans ([email protected]).
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