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View article: The crisis in American science
The crisis in American science Open
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortu…
View article: Situating Cognitive Science after 1945
Situating Cognitive Science after 1945 Open
The paper attempts to place the emergence of cognitive science (CS) as an interdisciplinary research program in historical context. A broad overview of the institutional and intellectual situations during the early postwar period is presen…
View article: Modernism, modernity, and politics in the general history of science: Implications of Herbert Mehrtens‘ work, from “Vienna 1900” to the Nazi era, and beyond
Modernism, modernity, and politics in the general history of science: Implications of Herbert Mehrtens‘ work, from “Vienna 1900” to the Nazi era, and beyond Open
Argument Herbert Mehrtens‘ work and the implications of the historical ideas he advanced went beyond the history of any single discipline. The article therefore addresses three broad issues: (1) Mehrtens‘ reconceptualization of mathematica…
View article: Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany
Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany Open
The fall of Communism is now universally agreed to be what the philosopher Hegel called a world historical event—one that few predicted but nearly everyone saw as inevitable after it happened. In the aftermath many lives—and worldviews—cha…
View article: The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects Open
The independence of research is a key strategic issue of modern societies. Dealing with it appropriately poses legal, economic, political, social and cultural problems for society, which have been studied by the corresponding disciplines a…
View article: History of science in<scp>Central and Eastern Europe</scp>: Studies from<scp>Poland, Hungary, and Croatia</scp>
History of science in<span>Central and Eastern Europe</span>: Studies from<span>Poland, Hungary, and Croatia</span> Open
The article introduces a special section about history of science in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the fall of Communism, and sketches a conceptual framework within which the three papers in the section can be understood toge…