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There is an obvious and trivial sense in which the answer to this question can only be in the affirmative. Historians and philosophers of science study the same phenomenon and hence share the same field of enquiry. But the interesting question, of course, is whether they meet on that common ground, not merely as individuals politely exchanging comments about the weather but as scholars who have something to learn from one another. In other words, do historians and philosophers of science profit from an exchange of ideas about their different ways of looking at science?
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Robert E. Butts, ‘Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy’, in J. Hintikka, D. Gruender and E. Agassi, Pisa Conference Proceedings, D. Reidel Publ. Co., Dordrecht, Holland, 1980, Vol. II, pp. 253–270.
I. Bernard Cohen, ‘History and the Philosophy of Science’, in Frederick Suppe (ed.), The Structure of Scientific Theories, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1974, p. 310, n. 10.
See, for instance, I. L. Lakatos and A. Musgrave (ed.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970.
Rudolf Carnap, Logical Foundations of Probability, second edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1962, pp. 3 ff.
See, for instance, J. C. C. McKinsey, A. C. Sugar, and Patrick Suppes, ‘Axiomatic Foundations of Classical Mechanics’, Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis 2 (1953), pp. 253–272.
Paul A. Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, Open Court, La Salle, Ill., 1963, p. 935.
Rudolf Carnap, Logical Foundations of Probability, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 19622, p. 3.
Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics, trans, by Thomas J. McCormack, Open Court, La Salle, Ill., 1960, p. 169.
Alexandre Koyré, Galileo Studies, translated by John Mepham, Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1978, pp. 129–236.
Galileo, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze in Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, A Favaro (ed.), 20 vols. G. Barbèra, Florence, 1890-1909. Vol. VIII, p. 243.
Ibid., p. 268.
Ibid., p. 275.
Ibid., p. 274-275.
Galileo Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari in Opere, Vol. V, p. 134.
Ibid., pp. 134-135.
Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, A. Koyré and I. B. Cohen (eds.), 2 vols. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972, Vol. I, p. 54. See I. B. Cohen, ‘Newton’s Second Law and the Concept of Force in the Principia’ Texas Quarterly 10(1967), 125-157.
Ibid., Vol. II, p. 764.
William Kneale, Probability and Induction, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966, p. 99.
Ibid., p. 100.
See I. B. Cohen’s excellent essay ‘Hypotheses in Newton’s Philosophy’, Physis 8 (1977), pp. 163–184.
Galileo, Two New Sciences, trans, by Henry Grew and Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Dover, no date, p. 213. The original reads: “symptomatum tarnen, quae complura et scitu digna insunt in eo, aduc inobservata, necdum indemonstrata, comperio” (Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, Vol. VIII, p. 190).
Alexandre Koyré, ‘Traduttore-traditore, à propos de Copernic et de Galilée’, Isis 34 (1943), pp. 209–210.
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I. B. Cohen, ‘History and the Philosophy of Science’, p. 340.
Arnold Thackray, John Dalton, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1972.
Gerald Holton, Thematic Origins of Scientific Throught, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1974, pp. 261–352.
Peter Achinstein, The Concepts of Science, The Johns Hopkins Press, Blatimore, 1968, pp. 209–225.
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Shea, W.R. (1983). Do Historians and Philosophers of Science Share the Same Heritage?. In: Shea, W.R. (eds) Nature Mathematized. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6957-5_1
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