ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

New Perspectives on Collaboration in Science 2

Session Submission Type: Organized Session

English Abstract

Collaboration has become a hallmark of contemporary science, yet cooperative forms of research have long characterized scientific practice across centuries and disciplines. This two-session symposium seeks to investigate the historical trajectories and epistemological foundations of scientific collaboration by bringing together a variety of contributions from the history and philosophy of science. It aims to examine the methodological issues, conceptual tools, and recurring structures that shape collaborative phenomena; to showcase a wide range of historical examples illustrating how cooperation has taken different forms across periods and scientific domains; and to foreground the spaces of collaboration—both the material settings of institutions and observatories and the cultural or disciplinary environments that constitute the “ideal” spaces in which scientific cooperation takes place.

Sub Unit

• Organized Session

Chair

• Luís Carolino, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, CIES

Individual Presentations

• Epistemic Constraints and Observatory Sciences. Forms of Collaboration within Real and Ideal Observatories (17th-18th Centuries) - Deias Dalia, Centre Alexandre Koyré

• New Perspectives on the History of the CERN Laboratory: The 1980s - Barbara Hof, University of Lausanne

• International Cooperation at the Time of the Human Genome Project (1987–1992) - Raphaël Lavie, Sorbonne Université

• Interoperability as Federation of Collaborations in Contemporary Cosmology - marco forgione, university of milan

Session Organizers

• Deias Dalia, Centre Alexandre Koyré

• Luca Guzzardi, University of Milan