Editorial: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 18;48(1):100920. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100920. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis editorial introduces the collection, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," co-edited by Dorien Daling and Hanneke Hoekstra. The collection offers a tribute to the eminent historian of science, Klaas van Berkel, commemorating his retirement from the University of Groningen. The papers compel us to consider the ongoing tensions between knowledge production and the social, political, and economic constraints faced by scholars, a theme that Max Weber famously addressed in his 1917 lecture, W...
Source: Endeavour - March 19, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Donald L Opitz Source Type: research
Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 13;48(1):100916. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100916. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn well-established disciplines like history it is not common to find professionals who admit that they are driven by a "calling" or who say they have a "mission" to fulfill. In emerging disciplines, however, the situation is different: in order to gain recognition these new disciplines need highly driven practitioners, who's calling enables them to overcome opposition or neglect from the side of the established disciplines. A clear example of such a practitioner with a mission in an emerging field of knowledge is the D...
Source: Endeavour - March 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Klaas van Berkel Source Type: research
Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 13;48(1):100916. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100916. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn well-established disciplines like history it is not common to find professionals who admit that they are driven by a "calling" or who say they have a "mission" to fulfill. In emerging disciplines, however, the situation is different: in order to gain recognition these new disciplines need highly driven practitioners, who's calling enables them to overcome opposition or neglect from the side of the established disciplines. A clear example of such a practitioner with a mission in an emerging field of knowledge is the D...
Source: Endeavour - March 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Klaas van Berkel Source Type: research
Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 13;48(1):100916. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100916. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn well-established disciplines like history it is not common to find professionals who admit that they are driven by a "calling" or who say they have a "mission" to fulfill. In emerging disciplines, however, the situation is different: in order to gain recognition these new disciplines need highly driven practitioners, who's calling enables them to overcome opposition or neglect from the side of the established disciplines. A clear example of such a practitioner with a mission in an emerging field of knowledge is the D...
Source: Endeavour - March 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Klaas van Berkel Source Type: research
Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 13;48(1):100916. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100916. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn well-established disciplines like history it is not common to find professionals who admit that they are driven by a "calling" or who say they have a "mission" to fulfill. In emerging disciplines, however, the situation is different: in order to gain recognition these new disciplines need highly driven practitioners, who's calling enables them to overcome opposition or neglect from the side of the established disciplines. A clear example of such a practitioner with a mission in an emerging field of knowledge is the D...
Source: Endeavour - March 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Klaas van Berkel Source Type: research
Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 13;48(1):100916. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100916. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn well-established disciplines like history it is not common to find professionals who admit that they are driven by a "calling" or who say they have a "mission" to fulfill. In emerging disciplines, however, the situation is different: in order to gain recognition these new disciplines need highly driven practitioners, who's calling enables them to overcome opposition or neglect from the side of the established disciplines. A clear example of such a practitioner with a mission in an emerging field of knowledge is the D...
Source: Endeavour - March 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Klaas van Berkel Source Type: research
Physics and the quest for transcendence: A Durkheimian approach
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 9;48(1):100913. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100913. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay aims to shed some light on the still common sense of a vocation among scientists. Taking its cue from Paul Forman's analysis of twentieth-century disciplinary science and Emile Durkheim's social view of religions, it suggests that modern scientific communities resemble religious communities in their penchant for transcendence. The essay aims to illustrate this perspective by looking at some developments within the physics discipline since its emergence in the late nineteenth century. One indication for this pe...
Source: Endeavour - March 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Frans H van Lunteren Source Type: research
Physics and the quest for transcendence: A Durkheimian approach
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 9;48(1):100913. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100913. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay aims to shed some light on the still common sense of a vocation among scientists. Taking its cue from Paul Forman's analysis of twentieth-century disciplinary science and Emile Durkheim's social view of religions, it suggests that modern scientific communities resemble religious communities in their penchant for transcendence. The essay aims to illustrate this perspective by looking at some developments within the physics discipline since its emergence in the late nineteenth century. One indication for this pe...
Source: Endeavour - March 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Frans H van Lunteren Source Type: research
Physics and the quest for transcendence: A Durkheimian approach
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 9;48(1):100913. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100913. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay aims to shed some light on the still common sense of a vocation among scientists. Taking its cue from Paul Forman's analysis of twentieth-century disciplinary science and Emile Durkheim's social view of religions, it suggests that modern scientific communities resemble religious communities in their penchant for transcendence. The essay aims to illustrate this perspective by looking at some developments within the physics discipline since its emergence in the late nineteenth century. One indication for this pe...
Source: Endeavour - March 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Frans H van Lunteren Source Type: research
Physics and the quest for transcendence: A Durkheimian approach
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 9;48(1):100913. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100913. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay aims to shed some light on the still common sense of a vocation among scientists. Taking its cue from Paul Forman's analysis of twentieth-century disciplinary science and Emile Durkheim's social view of religions, it suggests that modern scientific communities resemble religious communities in their penchant for transcendence. The essay aims to illustrate this perspective by looking at some developments within the physics discipline since its emergence in the late nineteenth century. One indication for this pe...
Source: Endeavour - March 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Frans H van Lunteren Source Type: research
Virtues and vocation: An historical perspective on scientific integrity in the twenty-first century
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 5;48(1):100915. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100915. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAccording to the Dutch chemist Gerrit Jan Mulder (1802-1880), the principal aim of university education was character building and moral edification. Professional training was of secondary importance. Mulder's ideas about the vocation and moral mission of the university professor can serve as a historical counterpart to later Weberian, Mertonian, and contemporary ideas on the ethos of science. I argue that a revaluation of the moral precepts that Mulder saw as defining the life of an academic is helpful in dealing with t...
Source: Endeavour - March 6, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Bert Theunissen Source Type: research
Virtues and vocation: An historical perspective on scientific integrity in the twenty-first century
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 5;48(1):100915. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100915. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAccording to the Dutch chemist Gerrit Jan Mulder (1802-1880), the principal aim of university education was character building and moral edification. Professional training was of secondary importance. Mulder's ideas about the vocation and moral mission of the university professor can serve as a historical counterpart to later Weberian, Mertonian, and contemporary ideas on the ethos of science. I argue that a revaluation of the moral precepts that Mulder saw as defining the life of an academic is helpful in dealing with t...
Source: Endeavour - March 6, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Bert Theunissen Source Type: research
Virtues and vocation: An historical perspective on scientific integrity in the twenty-first century
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 5;48(1):100915. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100915. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAccording to the Dutch chemist Gerrit Jan Mulder (1802-1880), the principal aim of university education was character building and moral edification. Professional training was of secondary importance. Mulder's ideas about the vocation and moral mission of the university professor can serve as a historical counterpart to later Weberian, Mertonian, and contemporary ideas on the ethos of science. I argue that a revaluation of the moral precepts that Mulder saw as defining the life of an academic is helpful in dealing with t...
Source: Endeavour - March 6, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Bert Theunissen Source Type: research
Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 13:100899. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100899. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWithin the history of mathematics and mathematics education in Nepal, Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya are relatively well-known figures for their two books Śiśubodha Taraṅgiṇī and Līlāvatī. This is despite there being almost no archival or manuscript materials offering a window into their lives: we have no letters, notebooks, diaries, or school records. Rather than focusing on either individual in isolation, in this article we present an argument for considering the Dhananjayas as an analytically indivisible coll...
Source: Endeavour - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Deepak Basyal Brigitte Stenhouse Source Type: research
Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 13:100899. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100899. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWithin the history of mathematics and mathematics education in Nepal, Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya are relatively well-known figures for their two books Śiśubodha Taraṅgiṇī and Līlāvatī. This is despite there being almost no archival or manuscript materials offering a window into their lives: we have no letters, notebooks, diaries, or school records. Rather than focusing on either individual in isolation, in this article we present an argument for considering the Dhananjayas as an analytically indivisible coll...
Source: Endeavour - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Deepak Basyal Brigitte Stenhouse Source Type: research
