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29How and Why I Write History of ScienceScience in Context 26 (4): 573-585. 2013.I have always been a philosopher at heart. I write history of science and history of its philosophy primarily as a philosopher wary of his abstractions and broad conceptualizations. But that has not always been the case. Lakatos famously portrayed history of science as the testing ground for theories of scientific rationality. But he did so along the crudest Hegelian lines that did injury both to Hegel and to the history and methodology of science. Since science is ultimately rational, he argued…Read more
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216Babbage's two livesBritish Journal for the History of Science 47 (1): 95-118. 2014.Babbage wrote two relatively detailed, yet significantly incongruous, autobiographical accounts of his pre-Cambridge and Cambridge days. He published one in 1864 and in it advertised the existence of the other, which he carefully retained in manuscript form. The aim of this paper is to chart in some detail for the first time the discrepancies between the two accounts, to compare and assess their relative credibility, and to explain their author's possible reasons for knowingly fabricating the le…Read more
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Tel Aviv UniversityThe Cohn Institute For History And Philosophy of Science And IdeasRetired faculty
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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