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    Ways of Integrating History and Philosophy of Science.Theodore Arabatzis & Jutta Schickore - 2012 - Perspectives on Science 20 (4):395-408.
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    What’s in It for the Historian of Science? Reflections on the Value of Philosophy of Science for History of Science.Theodore Arabatzis - 2017 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (1):69-82.
    In this article, I explore the value of philosophy of science for history of science. I start by introducing a distinction between two ways of integrating history and philosophy of science: historical philosophy of science and philosophical history of science. I then offer a critical discussion of Imre Lakatos’s project to bring philosophy of science to bear on historical interpretation. I point out certain flaws in Lakatos’s project, which I consider indicative of what went wrong with PHS in the past. (...)
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    Kuhn’s the Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited.Vasso Kindi & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.) - 2012 - New York: Routledge.
    The present paper argues that there is an affinity between Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" and Wittgenstein's philosophy. It is maintained, in particular, that Kuhn's notion of paradigm draws on such Wittgensteinian concepts as language games, family resemblance, rules, forms of life. It is also claimed that Kuhn's incommensurability thesis is a sequel of the theory of meaning supplied by Wittgenstein's later philosophy. As such its assessment is not fallacious, since it is not an empirical hypothesis and it does (...)
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    On the Inextricability of the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification.Theodore Arabatzis - 2006 - In Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction. Springer. pp. 215--230.
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    Experimentation and the Meaning of Scientific Concepts.Theodore Arabatzis - 2012 - In Uljana Feest & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. de Gruyter. pp. 149-166.
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    Introduction: Integrated history and philosophy of science in practice.Theodore Arabatzis & Don Howard - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 50:1-3.
  7. Experiment.Theodore Arabatzis - 2005 - In Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science. New York: Routledge. pp. 159--170.
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    (1 other version)Can a Historian of Science Be a Scientific Realist?Theodore Arabatzis - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 68 (S3):S531-S541.
    In this paper I address some of the problems that the historical development of science poses for a realist and discuss whether a realist construal of scientific activity is conducive to historiographical practice. First, I discuss, by means of historical examples, Ian Hacking's defense of entity realism. Second, I try to show, drawing on Kuhn's recent work on incommensurability, that the realism problem is relevant to historiography and that a realist position entails a particular historiographical strategy, which faces problems. Finally, (...)
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    Explaining Science Historically.Theodore Arabatzis - 2019 - Isis 110 (2):354-359.
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    Rethinking the ‘Discovery’ of the electron.Theodore Arabatzis - 1996 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 27 (4):405-435.
  11. The Problem of Conceptual Change in the Philosophy and History of Science.Theodore Arabatzis & Vasso Kindi - 2008 - In Stella Vosniadou (ed.), Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change. Routledge. pp. 343-359.
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    The discovery of the Zeeman effect: A case study of the interplay between theory and experiment.Theodore Arabatzis - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (3):365-388.
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    Hidden Entities and Experimental Practice: Renewing the Dialogue Between History and Philosophy of Science.Theodore Arabatzis - 2011 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 263:125-139.
    In this chapter I investigate the prospects of integrated history and philosophy of science, by examining how philosophical issues raised by “hidden entities”, entities that are not accessible to unmediated observation, can enrich the historical investigation of their careers. Conversely, I suggest that the history of those entities has important lessons to teach to the philosophy of science. Hidden entities have played a crucial role in the development of the natural sciences. Despite their centrality to past scientific practice, however, several (...)
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  14. The Electron: A Biographical Sketch of a Theoretical Entity.Theodore Arabatzis - 1995 - Dissertation, Princeton University
    This dissertation reconstructs some aspects of the historical development of the concept of the electron from 1891, when the term "electron" was introduced, to 1925, when the notion of spin was put forward, in the light of the relevant historiographical and philosophical problems. The central historiographical tool employed is Karl Popper's notion of a problem situation. Furthermore, some of the historical episodes are reconstructed in terms of a "biographical" approach to theoretical entities that portrays them as active agents that participate (...)
     
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  15. On the Historicity of Scientific Objects.Theodore Arabatzis - 2011 - Erkenntnis 75 (3):377-390.
    The historical variation of scientific knowledge has lent itself to the development of historical epistemology, which attempts to historicize the origin and establishment of knowledge claims. The questions I address in this paper revolve around the historicity of the objects of those claims: How and why do new scientific objects appear? What exactly comes into being in such cases? Do scientific objects evolve over time and in what ways? I put forward and defend two theses: First, the ontology of science (...)
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    Commentary 03 on Lilley 1953 and Truesdell 1973.Theodore Arabatzis - 2008 - Centaurus 50 (1-2):32-36.
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  17. From Discrepancy to Discovery: How Argon Became an Element.Kostas Gavroglu & Theodore Arabatzis - 2016 - In Raphael Scholl & Tilman Sauer (eds.), The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Springer.
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  18. Introduction.Jürgen Renn, Theodore Arabatzis & Ana Simões - 2015 - In Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu. Springer Verlag.
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    Book Forum.Theodore Arabatzis - 2023 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 98 (C):1-3.
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    Centaurus: Continuing as an Open Access Journal.Theodore Arabatzis & Koen Vermeir - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):11-12.
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    Do scientific objects have a life (which may end)?Theodore Arabatzis - 2021 - Science in Context 34 (2):195-208.
    ArgumentThe aim of this article is to make a case for the pertinence of a biographical approach to the history of scientific objects. I first lay out the rationale of that approach by revisiting and extending my earlier work on the topic. I consider the characteristics of scientific objects that motivate the biographical metaphor, and I indicate its virtues and limitations by bringing out the positive and negative analogies between biographies of scientific objects and ordinary biographies. I then point out (...)
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    Engaging philosophically with the history of science: two challenges for scientific realism.Theodore Arabatzis - 2018 - Spontaneous Generations 9 (1):35-37.
    I raise two challenges for scientific realists. The first is a pessimistic meta-induction, but not of the more common type, which focuses on rejected theories and abandoned entities. Rather, the PMI I have in mind departs from conceptual change, which is ubiquitous in science. Scientific concepts change over time, often to a degree that is difficult to square with the stability of their referents, a sine qua non for realists. The second challenge is to make sense of successful scientific practice (...)
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    Growing Explanations. Historical Perspectives on Recent Science - Edited by M. Norton Wise.Theodore Arabatzis - 2007 - Centaurus 49 (2):178-179.
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    Hidden entities and experimental practice: Towards a two-way traffic between history and philosophy of science.Theodore Arabatzis - unknown
    In this paper I investigate the prospects of integrated history and philosophy of science, by examining how philosophical issues concerning experimental practice and scientific realism can enrich the historical investigation of the careers of "hidden entities", entities that are not accessible to unmediated observation. Conversely, I suggest that the history of those entities has important lessons to teach to the philosophy of science. My overall aim is to illustrate the possibility of a fruitful two-way traffic between history and philosophy of (...)
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    Jutta Schickore, About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2017.Theodore Arabatzis - 2018 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41 (4):473-474.
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  26. Remarks on the historiography of scientific discovery: the case of the electron.Theodore Arabatzis - 1996 - Neusis 5:33-53.
     
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    20th Century Philosophy of Science in Focus: The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000: Logical Reconstructionism, Descriptivism, Normative Naturalism, and Foundationalism, by John Losee, London, Bloomsbury, 2019, 328 pp., ISBN: 9781350071513, £85.00.Theodore Arabatzis - 2020 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 33 (1):53-57.
    As indicated by its title, this book provides an overview of philosophy of science in the twentieth century. It focuses mostly on post-WWII philosophy of science, but it discusses earlier developme...
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    Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu.Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.) - 2015 - Springer Verlag.
    In 1877 Louis Paul Cailletet in France and Raoul Pictet in Switzerland liquefied oxygen in the form of a mist. The liquefaction of the first of the so-called permanent gases heralded the birth of low-temperature research and is often described in the literature as having started a ‘race’ for attaining progressively lower temperatures. In fact, between 1877 and 1908, when helium, the last of the permanent gases, was liquefied, there were many priority disputes—something quite characteristic of the emergence of a (...)
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  29. Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge.Corrine Bloch-Mullins & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.) - forthcoming
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    Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited.Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.) - 2012 - New York: Routledge.
    Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in Aug. 2008 in Athens, Greece.
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    Essay review: Towards a historical ontology? [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (2):431-442.
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    Allan Franklin. What Makes a Good Experiment? Reasons and Roles in Science. viii + 372 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $55. [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2018 - Isis 109 (1):146-147.
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    Edited by JaumeNavarroEther and modernity: The recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018, 272 pp., Hardcover, $85.00. ISBN: 9780198797258. [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2020 - Centaurus 62 (3):573-575.
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    Jimena Canales. A Tenth of a Second: A History. xii + 269 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $35. [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2011 - Isis 102 (4):774-775.
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    Jaume Navarro. A History of the Electron: J. J. and G. P. Thomson. vii + 186 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £50. [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2015 - Isis 106 (1):204-205.
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  36. to Theoretical Entities, Chicago und London (University of Chicago Press) 2006, XIV und 295 S.; Paperback $28, 00; Cloth $70.00. Alexy, Robert (Hg.), Juristische Grundlagenforschung. Tagung der Deutschen Sektion der Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts-und. [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2006 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 37:443-446.
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