The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant

HOPOS unfolded: roadmap to the discipline Flavia Padovani and Adam Tamás Tuboly

Part 1: Perspectives on philosophy of science

1. The History of Philosophy of Science as an ecumenical movement Michael 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

Index

Biography

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 (2021–2022).

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).