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The History and Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range of philosophical reflections on the nature, methods, and subject matter of science, all considered within their historical contexts.
List of contents
HOPOS unfolded: roadmap to the discipline
Flavia Padovani and Adam Tamas Tuboly Part 1: Perspectives on philosophy of science 1. The History of Philosophy of Science as an ecumenical movement
Bennett McNulty 2. History of philosophy of science
Alan Richardson 3. Turns to history in philosophy of science
Jutta Schickore 4. Integrated history and philosophy of science
Don Howard 5. General philosophy of science
Chrysovalantis Stergiou, Alexandros Apostolidis, and Stathis Psillos 6. The sociological turn
Gábor Á. Zemplén and Tamás Demeter 7. The practice turn
Dániel Bárdos and Alexandra Karakas 8. Feminist philosophy of science
Audrey Yap 9. Socially engaged philosophy of science
Kathryn S. Plaisance Part 2: Traditions and movements in philosophy of science 10. Victorian philosophy of science
Lukas M. Verburgt 11. The emergence of scientific philosophy
Lydia Patton 12. The emergence of psychophysics
Michael Heidelberger 13. Neo-Kantianism
Jeremy Heis 14. French positivist philosophy of science
Warren Schmaus 15. French conventionalism
David J. Stump 16. Bachelardian and continental epistemologies
Matteo Vagelli 17. Logical empiricism
Christian Damböck 18. The Received View and its images
Sebastian Lutz 19. Critical realism and early American philosophy of science
Matthias Neuber 20. Pragmatism, abduction, and religion
Alexander Mugar Klein and Scott Metzger 21. Naturalism
Sander Verhaegh 22. Kuhn's influence and legacy
K. Brad Wray 23. Critical rationalism and the debate over the rationality of science
Matteo Collodel 24. Marxist philosophy and history of science
Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova, Natalia Nikiforova, Alfred Nordmann, and Oliver Schlaudt Part 3: Specific theories, issues, and concepts 25. Ernst Mach's principle of economy across scientific fields
Philipp Leon Bauer and Friedrich Stadler 26. Space, time, and geometry
Francesca Biagioli 27. Early philosophical interpretations of special and general relativity
Marco Giovanelli 28. Quantum mechanics
Valia Allori 29. Causality and determinism
Marij van Strien 30. Induction
Gerhard Schurz 31. Probability
Maria Carla Galavotti 32. Structures and structuralism
Georg Schiemer 33. Scientific realism and constructive empiricism
Bas C. van Fraassen 34. Constructivism as a bridge between philosophy and science
Alexander Riegler 35. Post-Enlightenment vitalism
Bohang Chen and Charles Wolfe 36. Philosophy and race science
Phila M. Msimang and Sahotra Sarkar 37. Measurement
Alessandro Giordani and Luca Mari 38. Experimentalism and tools of science
Massimiliano Simons and Jan Potters 39. Models and theories
Axel Gelfert 40. Visualization and diagrams in mathematics
Silvia De Toffoli 41. Calculation in kind: From socialist to ecological economics
Thomas Uebel 42. Four traditions in the history of values in science
Matthew J. Brown Part 4: Philosophy of the special sciences 43. Philosophy of mathematics
Erich H. Reck 44. Philosophy of chemistry
Eric Scerri 45. Philosophy of biology
Rachel A. Ankeny 46. Philosophy of medicine
Ashley Graham Kennedy 47. Philosophy of psychology and psychiatry
Jonathan Y. Tsou 48. Philosophy of the social sciences
Mark Risjord 49. Philosophy of cosmology
Silvia De Bianchi 50. Philosophy of climate science
Vincent Lam
About the author
Flavia Padovani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. She is also on the faculty of Drexel's Center for Science, Technology, and Society. She has edited several volumes, including
Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies with A. Richardson and J.Y. Tsou (2015), and the
Synthese special issue "All Things Reichenbach" with E. Curiel (2021-022).
Adam Tamas Tuboly is a senior researcher at the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities Institute of Philosophy, and at the Medical School of the University of Pécs. He is leader of the MTA Lendulet Values and Science Research Group, and editor with Sebastian Lutz of
Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences (Routledge 2021), and author with Christopher Burke of
Otto Neurath in Britain (2025).
