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The second HPSC reunion attracted many current members, alumni, and friends of the department. More »

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University was founded in 1960 by Ed Grant and the late N. R. Hanson. HPSC is perhaps best described as a discipline devoted to using a wide variety of historical and philosophical approaches to understand one of the most important conceptual and cultural enterprises of the modern world—science.

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Evan RaglandCongratulations to Evan Ragland, winner of 2012 Shryock Meddal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. It is the second time in less than ten years that this prestigious award comes to our department!

Ron GiereWe welcome Adjunct Professor Ron Giere back to Bloomington!

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