Science's Voice of Reflection

<p><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>By virtue of its subject its methods and its disciplinary tradition philosophy of science straddles the borderlines between C. P. Snow's </span><em style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>Two Cultures</em><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)> connected equally strongly to the learned realm of the humanities and the technological domain of the sciences and thereby linking these worlds. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>Philosophers of science who engage with scientists or engineers often understand their role as that of the voice of reflection: the philosophical eagle perspective allows them to engage with those questions all too often ignored in the everyday routine of scientific practice: questions about the motivation norms values methods and limitations of the scientific enterprise. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>Many modern scientific projects covering all of the disciplines in the natural medical and engineering sciences urgently require this level of philosophical reflection: large-scale collaborative scientific projects with major impact on our world and society raise concerns about sustainability safety objectivity inter-subjectivity ethics and the fundamental concepts underlying the scientific questions all of which are firmly within the domain of competence of the philosopher of science. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>This is the inaugural volume of the new book series </span><em style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>Comptes Rendus de l'Acade?mie Internationale de Philosophie des Science </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>whose volumes are freely available online. The series is edited on behalf of the </span><em style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>Acade?mie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences </em><span style=color: rgba(71 24 20 1)>(AIPS) and this volume contains papers presented at the AIPS conference held in Amsterdam in September 2018. </span></p>