International Union of History and Philosophy of Science


The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is one of the members of the International Science Council. It was founded in 1955 by merging the International Union of History of Science and the International Union of Philosophy of Science, and consists of two divisions, the Division of History of Science and Technology and the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
WWW iuhpst.org

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, the current IUHPST Vice President is Valentin Goranko, the current IUHPST Secretary General is Liesbeth De Mol, and the current IUHPST Treasurer is Milada Sekyrková.

DHST

The Division of History of Science and Technology is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the fields of history of science across the world.
Together with the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the DHST forms one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, representing the field of history of science in the International Science Council. The DHST is a member organisation of the Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines. In May 2021, DHST and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics created the Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of Physics. The commission is recognized as an IUPAP affiliated commission.
The DHST organizes an international congress every four years, and coordinates the activities of numerous commissions. The members of DHST are 98 national members and 26 international scientific unions.

Past congresses

  • 1st International Congress of History of Science: Paris, France, 1929
  • 2nd International Congress of the History of Science, London, 1931
  • 3rd International Congress of History of Science: Porto-Combra-Lisbon, Portugal, 1934
  • 4th International Congress of History of Science: Prague, Czechoslovakia, 22–27 September 1937. "Science in the Eighteenth Century"
  • 5th International Congress of History of Science: Lausanne, Switzerland, 1947
  • 6th International Congress of History of Science: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1950
  • 7th International Congress of History of Science: Jerusalem, Israel, 1953
  • 8th International Congress of History of Science: Florence-Milan, Italy, 1956
  • 9th International Congress of History of Science: Barcelona-Madrid, Spain, 1959
  • 10th International Congress of History of Science: Ithaca, US, 1962
  • 11th International Congress of History of Science: Warsaw-Kraków, Poland, 1965
  • 12th International Congress of History of Science: Paris, France, 1968
  • 13th International Congress of History of Science: Moscow, USSR, 1971
  • 14th International Congress of History of Science: Tokyo, Japan, 1974
  • 15th International Congress of History of Science: Edinburgh, Scotland, 1977 "Human implications of scientific advance"
  • 16th International Congress of History of Science: Bucharest, Romania, 1981
  • 17th International Congress of History of Science: Berkeley, US, 1985
  • 18th International Congress of History of Science: Hamburg, Germany, 1989. "Science and religion"
  • 19th International Congress of History of Science: Zaragoza, Spain, 1993
  • 20th International Congress of History of Science: Liège, Belgium, 1997
  • 21st International Congress of History of Science: Mexico City, Mexico, 2001 "Science and cultural diversity"
  • 22nd International Congress of History of Science: Beijing, China, 2005. "Globalization and diversity: diffusion of science and technology throughout history"
  • 23rd International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Budapest, Hungary, 2009. "Ideas and instruments in social context"
  • 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Manchester, England, 2013. "Knowledge at work"
  • 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017. "Science, Technology and Medicine between the Global and the Local"
  • 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. "Giants and Dwarfs in Science, Technology and Medicine"
  • 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Dunedin, New Zealand, 2025. "Peoples, Places, Exchanges, and Circulation"

Presidents

Current council

The current DHST council consists of the executive members Marcos Cueto, Janet Browne, Takehiko Hashimoto, Hasok Chang, Liesbeth De Mol, Milada Sekyrková, Thomás A. S. Haddad, and the assessors Xingbo Luo, Michela Malpangotto, Jahnavi Phalkey, Maria Rentetzi, Sergey Shalimov, and Hamish Spencer.

DLMPST

The Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the fields of logic and philosophy of science across the world. Together with the Division of History of Science and Technology, the DLMPST forms one of the two divisions of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, representing the fields of logic and philosophy of science in the International Science Council.
The DLMPST is a member organisation of the Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines. 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 every four years.

Past and planned congresses

Presidents

NameTerm of office
1st PresidentStephen Cole Kleene
2nd PresidentGeorg Henrik von Wright1963–1965
3rd PresidentYehoshua Bar-Hillel1966–1969
4th PresidentStephan Körner1969–1971
5th PresidentAndrzej Mostowski1971–1975
6th PresidentJaakko Hintikka1975
7th PresidentPatrick Suppes1975–1979
8th PresidentJerzy Łoś1979–1983
9th PresidentDana Scott1983–1987
10th PresidentLawrence Jonathan Cohen1987–1991
11th PresidentJens Erik Fenstad1991–1995
12th PresidentWesley Salmon1995–1999
13th PresidentMichael Rabin1999–2003
14th PresidentAdolf Grünbaum2003–2007
15th PresidentWilfrid Hodges2007–2011
16th PresidentElliott Sober2011–2015
17th PresidentMenachem Magidor2016–2019
18th PresidentNancy Cartwright2020–2023
19th PresidentValentin Goranko2024–2027

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,
Sandra Mitchell,
Mitsuhiro Okada,
Nancy Cartwright,
Eleonora Cresto,
and
Pierre Édouard Bour.
The assessors are
Atocha Aliseda,
Agnes Bolinska,
Juliet Floyd,
Valeria Giardino,
Sabina Leonelli,
Fenrong Liu,
Marco Panza, and
Giuseppe Primiero.

Past DLMPST council members

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