Giants Upon Our Shoulders: A Philosophical History of Physics in Uruguay
暫譯: 肩上的巨人：烏拉圭物理學的哲學歷史
Queijo Olano, Juan A., Mozo Meneses, Evelyn
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-07-31
- 售價: $5,500
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,225
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 186
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031977289
- ISBN-13: 9783031977282
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商品描述
This book offers the hitherto unknown history of physics in Uruguay. To describe this history, it is necessary to take a broader view of the first Latin American attempts at research in physics. These first researchers dedicated to the understanding of physics received the "giants" achievements of the discipline from Europe or the United States, but all they could do was find ways to preserve most of this knowledge. Thus, instead of thinking of science as an international enterprise in which all members participate with the same goal of looking far ahead, this book reflects on the real circumstances of Uruguayan and Latin American scientists, who were willing to become part of the international communities, but did not have the proper training, resources and cultural support to do so. That's why the history contained in this book is mixed with some philosophical problems about the real nature of the practice of physics and science in general. The mainstream definitions of scientific activity, or the proper concept of science should be adapted to material conditions and different kinds of aims and proposals. This book explores, based on the history of physics in Uruguay and Latin America, new standards of "the scientific" itself, making it of great interest to historians and philosophers of science and those interested in the history of Latin America and Uruguay in particular.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了烏拉圭物理學的未知歷史。為了描述這段歷史，有必要從更廣泛的角度來看待拉丁美洲在物理學研究方面的首次嘗試。這些首批致力於理解物理學的研究者，從歐洲或美國接收了這一學科的「巨人」成就，但他們所能做的只是尋找保存這些知識的方法。因此，這本書反映了烏拉圭和拉丁美洲科學家的真實情況，他們願意成為國際社群的一部分，但卻缺乏適當的訓練、資源和文化支持。因此，這本書中所包含的歷史與一些關於物理學及科學實踐本質的哲學問題交織在一起。科學活動的主流定義，或科學的正確概念應該根據物質條件以及不同類型的目標和提案進行調整。這本書基於烏拉圭和拉丁美洲的物理學歷史，探索了「科學」本身的新標準，對於科學史學家、哲學家以及對拉丁美洲和烏拉圭歷史感興趣的人來說，具有極大的吸引力。
作者簡介
Juan A. Queijo Olano is Professor at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He teaches courses on the general history and philosophy of science, the historiography of science and the philosophy of the natural sciences. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of physics in Latin America. He is author of From the Laboratory: the Origins of Physics in Uruguay (University of the Republic Press, 2023) and Lorraine Daston in Montevideo (University of the Republic Press, 2023) with Isabel Wschebor. He contributed to the book Handbook for the Historiography of Science Condé & Salomon [Eds.] (Springer Nature, 2023) with the chapter Historical Epistemology: A German Connection. He has published in Physics in Perspective, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, and other journals.
Evelyn Mozo Meneses is a Master student in Epistemology and History of Science at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires. Her thesis, scheduled for the first semester of 2025, is entitled The Role of the Concept of Aether in the Optics of Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens. She teaches philosophy of science, history of science and logic at the State Secondary School. She is co-author of the article The malleability of physics: genealogies of a discipline in the nineteenth century Rio de la Plata (Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência, 2024), with Juan A. Queijo Olano.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
胡安·A·凱希奧·奧拉諾是烏拉圭共和國大學的教授。他擁有巴西里約熱內盧州立大學的哲學博士學位。他教授有關科學的一般歷史與哲學、科學的歷史學以及自然科學的哲學課程。他的研究重點是拉丁美洲的物理學歷史與哲學。他是《從實驗室出發：烏拉圭物理學的起源》（烏拉圭共和國出版社，2023）和《洛林·達斯頓在蒙特維多》（烏拉圭共和國出版社，2023，與伊莎貝爾·維斯切博合作）的作者。他為《科學歷史學手冊》一書貢獻了章節《歷史認識論：德國的聯繫》，該書由康德與薩洛蒙編輯（施普林格自然出版社，2023）。他曾在《物理學透視》、《橫向：國際科學歷史學期刊》和其他期刊上發表文章。
艾薇琳·莫佐·梅內塞斯是布宜諾斯艾利斯的特雷斯·德·費布雷羅國立大學的科學認識論與歷史碩士生。她的論文定於2025年第一學期完成，題為《以撒·牛頓與克里斯蒂安·惠更斯光學中以太概念的角色》。她在國立中學教授科學哲學、科學歷史和邏輯。她是文章《物理學的可塑性：十九世紀拉普拉塔地區一門學科的系譜》（《巴西科學歷史期刊》，2024，與胡安·A·凱希奧·奧拉諾合作）的共同作者。
