The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is one of the members of the

International Science Council The International Science Council (ISC) is an international non-governmental organization that unites scientific bodies at various levels across the social and natural sciences. The ISC was formed with its inaugural general assembly on 4 July 20 ...

(ISC). It was founded in 1955 by merging the International Union of History of Science (IUHS) and the International Union of Philosophy of Science (IUPS), and consists of two divisions, the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST) and the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST).

Structure and governance

The IUHPST does not have its own membership structure and governance, but is an umbrella organisation for its two Divisions, DHST and DLMPST. It is governed by the officers of the two Divisions in a rotational system where the Presidency of the Union rotates between the Presidents of the two Divisions. The current IUHPST President is Marcos Cueto (President of DHST), the current IUHPST Vice President is Valentin Goranko (President of DLMPST), the current IUHPST Secretary General is Liesbeth De Mol (Secretary General of DHST), and the current IUHPST Treasurer is Milada Sekyrková (Treasurer of DHST).

DHST

The Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST) is an international

non-governmental organisation A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...

devoted to international cooperation in the fields of

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...

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 field of

in the

(ISC). The DHST is a member organisation of the Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines (CIPSH). In May 2021, DHST and the

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP; ) is an international non-governmental organization whose mission is to assist in the worldwide development of physics, to foster international cooperation in physics, and to help in the ...

(IUPAP) created the Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUCHPP). The commission is recognized as an IUPAP affiliated commission (AC6). 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
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Second International Congress of the History of Science The Second International Congress of the History of Science was held in London from June 29 to July 4, 1931. The Congress was organised by the International Committee of History of Science, in conjunction with the Comité International des Science ...

Past and future presidents

Charles Singer Charles Joseph Singer (2 November 1876 – 10 June 1960) was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine. He served as medical officer in the British Army. Biography Early years Singer was born in Camberwell in London, where hi ...

(1947–1950) *

George Sarton George Alfred Leon Sarton (; 31 August 1884 – 22 March 1956) was a Belgian-American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study. His most influential works were ...

(1950–1953) *

Louis de Broglie Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French theoretical physicist and aristocrat known for his contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of elec ...

(1953–1956) *

Robert Jacobus Forbes Robert Jacobus Forbes or Robert James Forbes (21 April 1900, Breda – 13 January 1973, Haarlem) was a Dutch chemist and historian of science and professor in the history of applied science and technology at the University of Amsterdam. In his d ...

(1956–1959) *

Vasco Ronchi Vasco Ronchi (; December 19, 1897 – October 31, 1988) was an Italian physicist known for his work in optics. He was born on 19 December 1897 in Florence, Italy. Along with Enrico Fermi, he was a student of Luigi Puccianti. He studied at the F ...

(1959–1968) *

I. Bernard Cohen I. Bernard Cohen (1 March 1914 – 20 June 2003) was an American historian of science. He taught at Harvard University for 60 years, 1942–2002, becoming the first chair of its Department of the History of Science when it was established in 19 ...

(1969–1971) *

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initia ...

(1972–1974) *

René Taton René Taton (4 April 1915 – 9 August 2004) was a French mathematician, historian of science, and long co-chief-editor of the ''Revue d'histoire des sciences''. He was awarded both the highest lifetime achievement awards in the field of history ...

(1975–1977) *

Ashot Grigoryan Ashot or Ashod () is an Armenian given name. Notable persons with the name include: Kings of the Bagratuni dynasty * Ashot Msaker (Ashot the Carnivorous) (died 826), Armenian prince *Ashot I of Armenia (Ashot the Great, 820–890), ruled 885–890 ...

(1978–1981) *

Erwin Hiebert Erwin Nick Hiebert (May 27, 1919 – November 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American physical chemist and historian of science. He taught numerous students who would go on to become leading figures in the history of science, particularly women such as ...

(1982–1985) *

Paolo Galluzzi Paolo Galluzzi (born 1942, Florence, Italy) is an Italian historian of science. Biography He has been director of the Museo Galileo – Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, Italy since 1982. He held the chair of History of Science ...

(1986–1989) *

William Shea William Alfred Shea ( ; June 21, 1907 – October 2, 1991) was an American lawyer, philanthropist, civic leader and sports team owner. He co-founded the law firm of Shea & Gould in 1964 and established the Continental League with Branch Rick ...

(1990–1993) * Robert Fox (1993–1997) * Bidare Venk Subbarayappa (1997–2001) * Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (2001–2005) *

Ronald Numbers Ronald Leslie Numbers (June 3, 1942 – July 24, 2023) was an American historian of science. He was awarded the 2008 George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society for "a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished sch ...

(2005–2009) *

Liu Dun Liu Dun ( 190s – 220s), courtesy name Ziren, was an official serving under the warlord Sun Quan during the late Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period of China, an expert at divination who was secretive in his arts. Life Liu Dun's ...

(2009–2013) * Efthymios Nicolaidis (2013–2017) * Michael Osborne (2017–2021) *

Marcos Cueto Marcos may refer to: People with the given name ''Marcos'' *Marcos (given name) *Marcos family Sports ;Surnamed * Dayton Marcos, Negro league baseball team from Dayton, Ohio (early twentieth-century) * Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer * Nélso ...

(2021–2025)

Current council

The current (2021–2025) DHST council consists of the executive members Marcos Cueto (president), Janet Browne (president elect), Takehiko Hashimoto (first vice-president),

Hasok Chang Hasok Chang (; born March 26, 1967) is a South Korea-born American historian and philosopher of science currently serving as the Hans Rausing Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and ...

(second vice-president), Liesbeth De Mol (secretary general), Milada Sekyrková (treasurer), Thomás A. S. Haddad (assistant secretary general), and the assessors Xingbo Luo,

Michela Malpangotto Michela Malpangotto is an Italian historian of science, specializing in the history of astronomy leading up to the Copernican Revolution, and its associated mathematics (especially spherical geometry and trigonometry). She is a director of resea ...

, Jahnavi Phalkey,

Maria Rentetzi Maria Rentetzi is a Professor of History of science and technology, History of Science and Technology and holds the Chair for Science, Technology and Gender Studies at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- ...

, Sergey Shalimov, and Hamish Spencer.

DLMPST

The Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) is an international

devoted to international cooperation in the fields of

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

and

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, ...

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

and

in the

(ISC). The DLMPST is a member organisation of the Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines (CIPSH). 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 and Technology (CLMPST) every four years.

Past and planned congresses

* CLMPS I:

Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and th ...

, United States, 1960 * CLMPS II:

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

, Israel, 1964 * CLMPS III:

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

, Netherlands, 1967 * CLMPS IV:

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

, Romania, 1971 * CLMPS V:

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, Canada, 1975 * CLMPS VI:

Hannover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

, Germany, 1979 * CLMPS VII:

Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...

, Austria, 1983 * CLMPS VIII:

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

, Soviet Union, 1987 * CLMPS IX:

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

, Sweden, 1991 * CLMPS X:

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, Italy, 1995 * CLMPS XI:

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

, Poland, 1999 * CLMPS XII:

Oviedo Oviedo () or Uviéu (Asturian language, Asturian: ) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region. It is also the name of the municipality that contains th ...

, Spain, 2003 * CLMPS XIII:

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

, China, 2007 * CLMPS XIV: Nancy, France, 2011 * CLMPS XV:

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

, Finland, 2015 * CLMPST XVI:

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

, Czech Republic, 2019 * CLMPST XVII:

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

, Argentina, 2023 * CLMPST XVIII:

Kobe Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...

, Japan, 2027

Past and future presidents

Current DLMPST council

The council of the DLMPST consists of the executive committee and ten assessors. The current members of the executive committee of the DLMPST are Valentin Goranko (President),

Sandra Mitchell Sandra D. Mitchell (born 1951) is an American philosopher of science and historian of ideas. She holds the position of distinguished professor in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the top rated sc ...

(First Vice President),

Mitsuhiro Okada Mitsuhiro (written: 光洋, 光尋, 光弘, 光浩, 光博, 光広, 光寛, 光裕, 光宏, 光啓, 充洋 or 充弘) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese singer, rapper, ...

(Second Vice President),

Nancy Cartwright Nancy Jean Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress, best known as the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on ''The Simpsons'', for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and an Annie Award f ...

(Past President),

Eleonora Cresto Eleanora or Eleonora may refer to: People * Eleanora (name) * Eleonora, three 17th century Swedish queens consort * Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626–1692), Swedish princess * Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga (1686–1741), Duche ...

(Secretary General), and Pierre Édouard Bour (treasurer). The assessors are

Atocha Aliseda Atocha may refer to: Places * Atocha (Madrid), a central ward (barrio) of Madrid, Spain, in the Arganzuela District * Atocha (Salta), a municipality in Salta Province, Argentina * Atocha, Bolivia, a town in the Atocha Municipality in Bolivia * At ...

, Agnes Bolinska, Juliet Floyd, Valeria Giardino, Sabina Leonelli, Fenrong Liu, Marco Panza, and

Giuseppe Primiero Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppa or Giuseppina. People with the given name include: :''Note: ...

Past DLMPST council members

In addition to the past presidents, past council members include:

References

External links

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