Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science

Science on the Range uses bats and their scientists to provide a historical and ecological account of both the range and Texas’ sovereignty as a settler colonial state. T [...]

Natural environments are considerably more variable than laboratory settings and often involve transient exposure to stressful conditions. To fully understand how organis [...]

Although citations are widely used to measure the influence of scientific works, research shows that many citations serve rhetorical functions and reflect little-to-no in [...]

This dissertation explores how “quantity” was reconceptualized in the context of 19th century experimental sciences. In canonical works of philosophy by Aristotle, De [...]

In the first half of the eleventh century, a close-knit group of scholars in southwest India did something new. They began composing texts about practical topics in a reg [...]

This is the first comprehensive history of the philology seminar as an institutional, intellectual, pedagogical, and scientific space. It also breaks new ground by studyi [...]

In 1936, the servicio médico-social (SMS) was established by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Departamento de Salubridad Pública (DSP) of Pr [...]

To be democratic, a society’s members should be endowed with capacities and dispositions to communicate and understand the diversity of each other’s experiences. Philosop [...]

A humanist theory of science must satisfy two requirements which appear to be in tension. Firstly, in order to hold science accountable for its socio-political consequenc [...]

While Collingwood’s Idea of History (IH) is an excellent resource for defending history’s autonomy, its invocation is not without problems. If history deals only in refle [...]

This dissertation draws on the work of John Dewey and other pragmatists to construct an extended critique of scientism. Rather than focusing on the legitimacy of non-scie [...]

Quantum mechanics continues to beguile scholars and the public alike, as does the stirring tale of its discovery: during the interwar period, amid the vibrant milieu of W [...]

This dissertation examines the topic of “global well-being” (as something distinct from global health or global mental health) through an emergent discourse in the sc [...]

This project reports on the specialized exegesis of the conceptual and methodological foundations of Aristotle’s Poetics as a productive science of both ancient and mod [...]