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  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (MPIWG) was founded in 1994. It is one of more than 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society. Since its foundation, the MPIWG has dealt with fundamental questions of the history of knowledge from the Neolithic to the present. At the institute, the researchers pursue historical epistemology: They investigate how categories of thought, proof and experience have historically developed in the interaction between the sciences and the cultures that surround them. Their research covers all epochs and continents, ranging from Babylonian mathematics to contemporary neuroscience, from the natural history of the Renaissance to the beginnings of quantum mechanics. The work of the MPIWG scientists forms the basis of a theoretically oriented history of science that looks at scientific practice from a variety of methodological and interdisciplinary perspectives. By analyzing scientific thinking and acting as historical phenomena, the institute creates a level of reflection for current challenges in science.

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  • BBF | Research Library for the History of Education // DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
  • German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
  • Centre Marc Bloch (CMB)
  • German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
  • German Institute for Urban Studies (DIFU)
  • The German Centre of Gerontology (DZA)
  • German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
  • German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)
  • DLR Institute of Transport Research
  • Forum Transregionale Studien (Forum)
  • Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e. V. (GWZ)
  • Historische Kommission zu Berlin (HiKo)
  • Institut für angewandte Forschung Berlin (IFAF Berlin)
  • Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB)
  • Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK)
  • German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
  • WZB Berlin Social Science Center
  • Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
  • Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
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