Hasok Chang
Hasok Chang (born March 26, 1967 in Seoul ) is a Korean-born American philosopher of science and science historian and professor at Cambridge University .
Chang attended Northfield Mount Hermon School and Hampshire College in Massachusetts, graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1989 (majoring in theoretical physics and philosophy), and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993 (Measurement and the Disunity of Quantum Physics ). As a post-doctoral student he was a physicist at Harvard University and from 1995 he was a lecturer at University College London (Science and Technology Studies Department). In 2008 he became professor there and from 2010 he was Hans Rausing Professor for the Philosophy and History of Science at Cambridge University.
From 2012 to 2014 he was President of the British Society for the History of Science (Presidential Address: Putting Science back into history of science). In 2006 he received the Lakatos Award for his book Inventing Temperature and in 2013 the Fernando Gil International Prize for Philosophy for his book Is Water H2O? . In 2016 he gave the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture of the Royal Society.
He deals with the history and philosophy of chemistry and physics from the 18th century, the role of measurement, scientific pluralism and realism, operationalism .
His brother Ha-Joon Chang (* 1963) teaches economics in Cambridge. His father Che-Shik Chang is a South Korean politician and his mother a teacher. Chang is a US citizen.
He has appeared on television shows on science history and philosophy in both England and South Korea.
Fonts
- Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress, Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Oxford UP 2004
- Is Water H2O?: Evidence, Realism and Pluralism, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Springer, 2012
- Operationalism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Web links
- Homepage in Cambridge
- Literature by and about Hasok Chang in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chang, Hasok |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Korean-American philosopher and historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seoul |