Research Project


 

Grant

In the period 01-03-200428-02-2006 I hold a grant from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities to do the research project:

Complementarity and Marxism: Epistemology, historiography, and ideology in twentieth century physics elucidated by the case of Léon Rosenfeld.


Activities

2004:

April 13-23: Archival and library studies in Paris

June 2-6: 4th Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP) Meeting, Traditions and Realities of National Historiographies of Science, the Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark.

June 23-29: Interview/conversation with Roberto Salmeron in Paris. Attending conference Rethinking the Comparative Evaluation of Scientific Theories. Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? in Nancy, France.

August 29 September 4: 9th International Summer School in History of Science. Theme: Current approaches to the history of science. Bologna, Italy.

October 6: Lecture Klassisk eksternalisme og klassisk og nyere videnskabssociologi in Claus Emmeches philosophy of science course at the Niels Bohr Institute.

October 12: Conversation with Jens Bang about Léon Rosenfeld, the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen.

November 4 6: First conference in the European Society for the History of Science: Science in Europe Europe in Science: 1500 2000, Maastricht. Paper presented see below.

November 14 21: Meeting Olival Freire Jr., Robert S. Cohen, John Stachel, and Abner Shimony in Boston, visit Robert Cohen Archive, interview with Gerry Brown in New York, HSS meeting in Austin, Texas. Paper presented see below.

2005:

January 10: Interview with Jørgen Kalckar, the Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.

March 31: Seminar at the Steno Institute, Aarhus Universitet, paper presented see below.

May 27: Symposium Einstein and Denmark, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, paper presented see below.

June 14: Seminar at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Recherche Epistemologiques et Historiques, sur les Sciences Exactes et les Instistutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS), Paris. Paper presented see below.

July 24-31: XXII International Congress of History of Science, Beijing, paper presented see below.

November 18: International Conference on Shifting Approaches in the Historiography of Exact Sciences in Honour of Jens Høyrup, Carlsberg Akademiet, paper presented see below.

December 6: seminar at Institut for Kemi, Miljø og Bioteknologi, Ålborg Universitet, paper presented see below.

2006:

February 9: seminar at IMFUFA, RUC.

March 30: Interview/conversation with John Archibald Wheeler, Princeton.

March 31-April1: workshop: Science at the Crossroads: Geopolitics, Marxism, and Seventy-Five Years of Science Studies, Princeton University

April 4: ``The relationship between Marxist philosophy of history, philosophy of science, and historiography of science in the work of Léon Rosenfeld´´, Conference: Philosophy and Historiography, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.

 


Papers (to be) presented

2004:

March 18: ”Komplementaritet og marxisme: Epistemologi, historiografi og ideologi i det 20. århundredes fysik belyst ved Léon Rosenfeld,” IMFUFA: Department of Mathematics and Physics, Roskilde University

November 4 6: Marxism and the epistemology of quantum physics elucidated through the case of Léon Rosenfeld at the first conference in the European Society for the History of Science: Science in Europe Europe in Science: 1500 2000 in Maastricht.

November 20: The Role of Marxist Ideology in Léon Rosenfelds Defence of Complementarity in the 1950s, in the session Postwar Science and Politics at the History of Science Societys 2004 meeting in Austin, Texas, USA.

2005:

March 31: “Léon Rosenfeld, dialektisk materialisme og kvantemekanikkens fortolkning,” Kollokvium ved Steno-instituttet, Aarhus Universitet.

May 27: ”Léon Rosenfeld og Københavnerfortolkningens skæbne efter Bohr-Einstein-diskussionerne,” Symposium om ”Einstein og Danmark”, Videnskabernes Selskab, arrangeret af Nationalkomiteen sammen med Videnskabshistorisk Selskab og støttes af DVH-projektet.

June 14: Quantum epistemology, history of science, and Marxism: the case of Léon Rosenfeld,” at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Recherche Epistemologiques et Historiques, sur les Sciences Exactes et les Instistutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS), Paris.

July 24-30: Dialectical development of physics: Léon Rosenfelds historiographical approach,XXII International Congress of History of Science, Beijing.

November 18: Ørsted and exact science, at the International Conference on Shifting Approaches in the Historiography of Exact Sciences in Honour of Jens Høyrup, Carlsberg Akademiet.

December 6: “Videnskab og romantik”, at the Institut for Kemi, Miljø og Bioteknologi, Ålborg Universitet

2006:

February 9: ``Léon Rosenfeld, marxisme og komplementaritet´´, seminar at IMFUFA, RUC

April 4: ``The relationship between Marxist philosophy of history, philosophy of science, and historiography of science in the work of Léon Rosenfeld´´, Conference: Philosophy and Historiography, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.