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PresentationThe LPHS (Laboratory of Philosophy and History of Science) - Archives Henri Poincaré was founded in 1992, at Nancy 2 University, under the name "Archives - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Henri-Poincaré". Since 2001, we have the status of a Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7117) of CNRS (French national center for scientific research).
We aim at developing a multi- and transdisciplinary research group model. What makes this project original lies in the fact that it brings together scientists interested in the history and philosophy of their disciplines and historians or philosophers ready to learn scientific contents and guide scientists in their historical or philosophical work. As an institutional result of this choice to work together, we're officially attached to the Nancy-University federation, formed by two universities (humanities and science) and a group of engineer schools since 2006.
Although we focus on Poincaré's work, research domains at the laboratory are much more varied, as is shown by the conferences we organized recently, or the programs of our seminars. Our research work is organized according to the three following lines:
1. Archives and tools - We keep, analyze and publish (notably on the web) several scientific or philosophical archives (Poincaré, Vuillemin, Bourbaki, Binet, Rougier, ...). We took part to the creation of three popularization movies and are working on the translation of scientific and philosophical texts.
2. Cognition, Logics and Scientific practives - This line treats of knowledge and problems related to knowledge, from various points of view: comparative history and philosophy of science (the reception of modern logic and pragmatism, justification in geometry, the reception of non-euclidean and topological viewpoints) ; logic and metaphysics of knowledge (historicism and metaphysics, naturalization, modal logics semantics) ; philosophy of mathematics and empirical sciences (philosophy of quantum physic, states of scientific knowledge) ; biology and body (see the ACCORPS team) ; aesthetics, knowledge and science.
3. Pôle Scientifique Nancéien - This interdisciplinary project studies the emergence of a scientific pole in Nancy through an analysis appealing to history, social sciences and teacher education. It focuses on the history of engineer schools, faculty of science and research groups in Nancy since 1854. [presentation]