Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781032083032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Cristina Chimisso

Opis

Hélène Metzger (1889-1944), the leading historian of chemistry of her generation, left us unparalleled reflections on the theory, practice and aims of history writing. This first full-length monograph on her explores both Metzger’s immediate legacy and the relevance of her ideas for a host of current debates in science studies.

Spis treści

Introduction and biographical notes on Hélène Metzger;  Part I: Themes in Metzger’s writings;  1: Anachronism and scientific concepts;  2: The study of science in the making;  3: Emotions, habits and sympathy;  Part II: The role of other disciplines in Metzger’s historiography;  4: Historical synthesis and the shape of history of science;  5: History of science and philosophy;  Chapter 6: History of science, ethnology and religion;  Part III: Metzger’s legacy;  7: Metzger’s impact on her world;  8: Metzger in our world;  Appendix: Four talks by Hélène Metzger;  Appendix 1: Should historians of science become the contemporaries of the scholars they study?;  Appendix 2: The tribunal of history and the theory of scientific knowledge;  Appendix 3: The a priori in scientific theory and in history of science;  Appendix 4: The philosophical method in the history of science

O autorze

Dr. Cristina Chimisso is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and European Studies at the Open University. She is the author of the monographs Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France 1900–1960s (2008), written with the support of an AHRC grant, and Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination (2001).