S2 Ep 3 - Kristian Camilleri on 'The Turn to Practice'

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Season 2 of the HPS podcast welcomes back friend of the podcast, Kristian Camilleri. This time he joins us to discuss the turn to practice in the philosophy of science.
The "turn to practice" is a common name for the shift in philosophy of science theory when philosophers and social scientists moved from studying science through broad theories and began to analyse how science is actually conducted by practising scientists. By shifting their focus here, philosophers of science were better able to understand the inner workings of scientific practice.
This often lead to interesting analysis of the ways in which discoveries were made. No one creates new ideas out of a vacuum, and by monitoring the steps of progress made by scientists, philosophers learnt more about how we come to create new scientific theories.
This episode with Kristian provides a neat sequel to his Season 1 episode on the Disunity of Science.
Some links related to this episode can be found below:
Book – Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social (routledge.com)
Article – ‘The Shaping of Inquiry: Histories of the Exact Sciences after the Practical Turn’ - https://www.scirp.org/pdf/AHS_2015050715404250.pdf
Society for the Philosophy of Scientific Practice - https://philosophy-science-practice.org/about/mission-statement
A transcript of this episode can be found here: https://www.hpsunimelb.org/post/kristian-camilleri-transcript-s2-e3

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