23/8/2021 0 Comments Welcoming New HPS ResearchThe 8th International Conference of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, &HPS8, was scheduled to take place at Virginia Tech, July 15-17, 2020. After the conference was canceled, the organizers took the paper and poster presentations, and the Proceedings, online. The theme of the conference was "From Unification to Pluralism", in recognition of the changing landscape of research in HPS.
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, two teams of researchers undertook parallel projects. A team from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University, led by Jutta Schickore, prepared an open access, online preprint repository for HPS work (history and philosophy of science). The repository features work presented at conferences hosted by the Committee for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science since its inception. One aim of the repository is to allow researchers entering the field to familiarize themselves with the norms and central themes of work in HPS. Another team from the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech, led by Lydia Patton, has prepared a website featuring the papers and posters accepted for the conference (&HPS8). Authors contributed online presentations of the papers and posters, which have been prepared with consistent editing and closed captions. In addition, graduate student researchers from the project hosted online interviews with authors, discussing their research in HPS, their views on interdisciplinary work, and their advice for researchers newly entering the field. Both series, the presentations and the author interviews, are featured on playlists on our new YouTube channel, and on the project website. The website and YouTube channel feature the conference presentations and author interviews. Work on this project has continued throughout the ongoing pandemic. It has been particularly rewarding to work on a project intended to welcome new researchers of the discipline of HPS. Our hope and plan for the project is to allow researchers entering the field to familiarize themselves with the breadth of the questions HPS investigates, to learn more about how others got into the field, and to gain a more concrete idea of how to make a contribution. For established researchers, the project offers an opportunity to reflect on the progress and trajectory of HPS, and on emerging research developments.
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