The prospective virtues of using history and philosophy of science in science teaching have
been pronounced for decades. Recently, a role for nature of science in supporting scientific …

" No other work in this field covers the history of important conceptual issues in archaeology
in such a deep and knowledgable way, bringing both philosophical and archeological …

Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological
tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of …

" Science is rooted in conversations," wrote Werner Heisenberg, one of the twentieth
century's great physicists. In Quantum Dialogue, Mara Beller shows that science is rooted …

The history of psychology tends to be accorded a purely pedagogical role within the
discipline rather than being seen as a possible source of substantive contributions. This …

Research in the teaching and learning of evolutionary biology has revealed persistent
difficulties in student understanding of fundamental Darwinian concepts. These difficulties …

Both a history and a metahistory, Representing Electrons focuses on the development of
various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890s to 1925 and the …

A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues
that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is organized …

This essay deals with the recent history of the disputes about the relation between history
and philosophy of science and the merits and prospects of HPS as an intellectual endeavor …

Research on the nature of science and science education enjoys a longhistory, with its
origins in Ernst Mach's work in the late nineteenthcentury and John Dewey's at the …