International Union of History and Philosophy of Science

DHST

The Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST) is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the fields of logic and philosophy of science across the world. Together with the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST), the DHST forms one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, representing the fields of logic, philosophy of science and history of science in the International Council for Science (ICSU).

The DHST organizes an international congress every four years, and coordinates the activities of numerous commissions. The members of DHST are 98 national members (represented by national committees for the history of science) and 26 international scientific unions.

Past congresses

1st International Congress of History of Science: Paris, France, 1929

2nd International Congress of History of Science: London, England, 1931 See also

3rd International Congress of History of Science: Porto-Combra-Lisbon, Portugal, 1934

4th International Congress of History of Science: Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937

5th International Congress of History of Science: Lausanne, Switzerland, 1947

6th International Congress of History of Science: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1950

7th International Congress of History of Science: Jerusalem, Israel, 1953

8th International Congress of History of Science: Florence-Milan, Italy, 1956

9th International Congress of History of Science: Barcelona-Madrid, Spain, 1959

10th International Congress of History of Science: Ithaca, USA, 1962

11th International Congress of History of Science: Cracow, Poland, 1965

12th International Congress of History of Science: Paris, France, 1968

13th International Congress of History of Science: Moscow, USSR, 1971

14th International Congress of History of Science: Tokyo, Japan, 1974

15th International Congress of History of Science: Edinburgh, Scotland, 1977

16th International Congress of History of Science: Bucarest, Romania, 1981

17th International Congress of History of Science: Berkeley, USA, 1985 See also

18th International Congress of History of Science: Hamburg, Germany, 1989

19th International Congress of History of Science: Zaragoza, Spain, 1993

20th International Congress of History of Science: Liège, Belgium, 1997

21st International Congress of History of Science: Mexico City, Mexico, 2001 See also

22nd International Congress of History of Science: Beijing, China, 2005

23rd International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Budapest, Hungary, 2009

24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Manchester, England, 2013

25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017

A map of past congresses can be found here.

Current Council

The current DHST council consists of Efthymios Nicolaidis (president), Michael Osborne (president elect), Lesley Cormack (first vice-president) Jean Gayon (second vice-president), Catherine Jami (secretary general), Jeff Hughes (treasurer), Annette Vogt (assistant secretary general) and the council members Takehiko Hashimoto, Frank James, Maija Kallinen, Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian, Luiz Carlos Soares, Sun Xiaochun.

DLMPST

The Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the fields of logic and philosophy of science across the world. Together with the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST), the DLMPST forms one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, representing the fields of logic and philosophy of science and history of science in the International Council for Science (ICSU). Until 2015, the DLMPST was called Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

The main activity of the DLMPST is the organization of the Congress for Logic, Philosophy and Methodology of Science (CLMPS) every four years.

Past and planned congresses

CLMPS I: Stanford CA, United States, 1960

CLMPS II: Jerusalem, Israel, 1964

CLMPS III: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1967

CLMPS IV: Bucharest, Romania, 1971

CLMPS V: London ON, Canada, 1975

CLMPS VI: Hannover, Germany, 1979

CLMPS VII: Salzburg, Austria, 1983

CLMPS VIII: Moscow, Soviet Union, 1987

CLMPS IX: Uppsala, Sweden, 1991

CLMPS X: Florence, Italy, 1995

CLMPS XI: Cracow, Poland, 1999

CLMPS XII: Oviedo, Spain, 2003

CLMPS XIII: Beijing, China, 2007

CLMPS XIV: Nancy, France, 2011

CLMPS XV: Helsinki, Finland, 2015

CLMPST XVI: Prague, Czech Republic, 2019

Past and future presidents

Stephen Cole Kleene

Georg Henrik von Wright (1963-1965)

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1966-1969)

Stephan Körner (1969-1971)

Andrzej Mostowski (1971-1975)

Jaakko Hintikka (1975)

Patrick Suppes (1975-1979)

Jerzy Łoś (1979-1983)

Dana Scott (1983-1987)

Lawrence Jonathan Cohen (1987-1991)

Jens Erik Fenstad (1991-1995)

Wesley Salmon (1995-1999)

Michael Rabin (1999-2003)

Adolf Grünbaum (2003-2007)

Wilfrid Hodges (2007-2011)

Elliott Sober (2011-2015)

Menachem Magidor (2016-2019)

Current DLMPST council

The council of the DLMPST consists of the executive committee and eight assessors. The current members of the executive committee of the DLMPST are Menachem Magidor (president), Helen Longino (first vice-president), Amita Chatterjee (second vice-president), Elliott Sober (past president), Benedikt Löwe (secretary general), Peter Schroeder-Heister (treasurer). The assessors are Samson Abramsky, Rachel Ankeny, Veronica Becher, Heather Douglas, Hannes Leitgeb, Mitsuhiro Okada, Katarzyna Papryzycka, Charlotte Werndl.

Past council members include Maria Carla Galavotti (first vice president, 2011-2015), Cliff Hooker (second vice president, 2011-2015), Dennis Dieks, Adam Grobler, Gerhard Heinzmann, Pablo Lorenzano, Karen Neander, Nancy Narcessian, Ilkka Niiniluoto, and Mariko Yasugi.