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| Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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| Research organization Max Planck Society for the Promotion of Sciences
Research areas
History of epistemological categories which determine scientific thinking and its explanatory standards: History of changing forms and standards of proof, history of competing forms of scientific factuality and historical investigations into the different conceptions and concrete scientific manifestations of objectivity.
Structural changes of systems of knowledge in the area of the natural sciences: historical reconstruction of mathematical thinking in ancient civilizations, re-constructions of the rise of classical mechanics; structural changes in science with developed disciplinary and integrated theoretical bases.
Conditions of scientific innovation: history and epistemology of experimentation; history of epistemic objects and spaces; historical pragmatism in the formation of concepts and the use of theory in the biological sciences.
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