1978年9月在意大利比萨召开了国际科学史与科学哲学会议。这次会议是由国际科学史与科学哲学协会(1970年建立)的联合委员会主持的。联合委员会的宗旨是组织国际会议,讨论科学历史家和科学哲学家共同感兴趣的一些问题,并扩大历史科学研究方法与方法论研究方法之间的相互联系,以便分析科学知识的结构及其进展。如同1973年在芬兰举行的第一次会议一样,这次意大利会议的组织者的目的在于尽可能为创造性讨论提供条件。因此对参加会议的人数加以限 1978 September Pisa in Italy held a history of international science and philosophy of science conference. This meeting was chaired by a joint committee of the International Association for the History of Science and Philosophy of Science (established in 1970). The purpose of the Joint Commission is to organize international conferences to discuss issues of common interest to both scientific historians and philosophers of science and to expand the interrelationship between the methods of historical science and methodological research in order to analyze the structure and progress of scientific knowledge. Like the first meeting in Finland in 1973, the purpose of the organizers of this Italian conference was to provide the conditions for creative discussions as much as possible. Thus limiting the number of participants to the conference