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Women in Computer Science
This chapter explores the experiences of the first women who entered the newly formed computer science program at the Weizmann Institute of Science...
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Wandering Through the Wonderland of Rabbinic Literature: Science and the Supernatural in Halakhic Writing of the Eighteenth Century
This essay examines Maoz Kahana’s A Heartless Chicken: Religion and Science in Early Modern Rabbinic Culture. Against familiar narratives that...
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A History of Methodological Debates in Political Science
This chapter addresses two areas in which the interests of political scientists overlap with those of philosophers of science: how political science...
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General Introduction to the History of Science and to the Philosophy of Science
The simplest meaning of science is organized knowledge. However, one needs to go further and specify in what sense it is organized – it needs to be...
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American Sociology: Between Science and Reform
American sociology is associated with quantification, as well as an alternative tradition of qualitative research. The development and relations of...
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Science in Dewey’s Great Community
Science and technology have become powerful forces in the modern world, continually expanding their influence over social and political life. But...
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Wittgenstein’s Critique of Science and Technology
In this paper, I examine Wittgenstein’s critical thinking on science and technology. I will argue that Wittgenstein’s fundamental anti-scientism and...
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Max Weber’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Science
In this chapter I build on John Dewey’s observation that the emergence of modern science is a watershed in the history of philosophy and argue that...
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Auguste Comte and the Origins of Social Science
Comte’s role in the history of sociology remains a controversial issue. To assess his claim of being its founder, this chapter briefly reviews the...
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Prehistoric Archaeology in the ‘Parliament of Science’
In this chapter I examine the process of the enrolment of archaeology by anthropology and ethnology by charting the positions of all three...
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The Critical Philosophy of Social Science of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism
The understanding of logical empiricist philosophy of social science is bedeviled by misrepresentations which continue to dominate how it is...
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A History of Metaethics and Values in Science
I pursue Matt Brown’s (Science and moral imagination: A new ideal for values in science. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2020) and James...
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Overviews of the History of Science
Ancient science was mostly based on observation and theory. They did some experiments (e.g. Strato and Archimedes) and attempted to describe nature...
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From science fiction to smart reality: a technology foresight review of smartdust evolution through the lens of Hamilton’s Great North Road
The convergence of science fiction imagination and technological reality offers unique insights for urban technology planning and policy development....
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Ideology and Science
Ideology and science. How do these two concepts – at opposite ends of the spectrum of human communication – go together? Connoisseurs of Marxism wave...
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Coleridge and the Science of Life
This chapter examines Coleridge’s Theory of Life in the context of a dispute in British medical institutions concerning the scientific status of...
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African Science in the Diaspora
The web of empire and its entanglement of different culture and knowledge sets allows for development of alternative worldviews, sometimes...
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Prologue: Elements of a New Architecture of Experience and Science
Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And...
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Women in Science and Technology in the Early Years
This chapter explores the challenges faced by women attempting to integrate into scientific and technological fields in the early years of Israel...
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John Stuart Mill, the Marketplace, and the Democratization of Science
The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that John Stuart Mill’s chief influence on twenith and twenty-first century philosophy of science was...