Docteure en histoire et philosophie des sciences, Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire SPHere UMR 7219
Me contacter : sarahnhijmans@gmail.com
Titre de la thèse : "From Lavoisier to Mendeleev : the Identification of Chemical Elements in Practice between 1770 and 1870"
Directeur de thèse : Jean-Pierre LLORED
Thèmes de recherche
Enseignements
Cursus
Publications
Communications
Grand public
THEMES DE RECHERCHE
Histoire et Philosophie de la Chimie
Chimie des 18e et 19e siècles
Le concept d’élément chimique
Analogie chimique et classification
Pratiques et expérimentation scientifique
Histoire du laboratoire (chimique)
ENSEIGNEMENTS
Monitrice au département d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences (Univ. Paris Cité) entre 2020 et 2022, je suis intervenu dans les UE suivantes :
Méthodes d’Histoire des Sciences (M2 - CM)
Histoire de la Physique (M2 - CM)
Introduction à l’Histoire des Sciences (M1/M2 - CM/TD)
Introduction à l’Histoire de la Physique (M1/M2 - CM/TD)
Introduction à la Philosophie des Sciences (M1/M2 - TD)
Méthodologie SHS (L1 PASS)
CURSUS
2018-2023 : Doctorante contractuelle en histoire et philosophie de la chimie à l’université Paris 7 Diderot
Oct. 2022 - Dec. 2022 : Visiting Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020 : Visiting Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
2015-2017 : Master Recherche LOPHISS à l’Université Paris 7 Diderot
2012-2015 : Bi-licence Chimie et Philosophie à l’Université Paris IV et l’Université Paris VI
PUBLICATIONS
Hijmans, S. N. (2022), “Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry : The Case of Aluminium”, European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12:5. DOI 10.1007/s13194-021-00442-w
Hijmans, S. and Llored, J.-P. (2020), "How to investigate the underpinnings of sciences ? The case of the element chlorine", Foundations of Chemistry 22 : 447–456. DOI 10.1007/s10698-020-09372-6
Hijmans, S., (2020), "Chemical Elements and Chemical Substances : Rethinking Paneth’s Distinction", in E. Ghibaudi & E. Scerri (eds.), What Is A Chemical Element ? A Collection of Essays by Chemists, Philosophers, Historians, and Educators, Oxford : Oxford University Press
Comptes rendus
Hijmans, S. (2021), "Technoscience in History : Prussia, 1750–1850", Ambix, DOI : 10.1080/00026980.2021.1893516
Hijmans, S. (2021), "Philosophie de la Chimie", HYLE - International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry 27(1):143-146.
COMMUNICATIONS
Présentations orales lors de colloques internationaux
2022 :
"Scientific authority in mineral analysis : Heinrich Rose (1795-1864) and Hans Rudolph Hermann (1805-1879)", European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, Bruxelles, 7-10 septembre 2022.
"What is an element ? Applying pragmatist realist epistemology to the study of chemical concepts", Realism for Realistic People : A Copenhagen-Cambridge symposium on Hasok Chang’s philosophy of science, Copenhagues, 29-30 juin 2022.
2021 :
"The tantalum metals and the attribution of elementary status in nineteenth-century analytical chemistry", 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), 25-31 juillet 2021.
"The many fathers of aluminium : collaboration, credit and the construction of discovery", 24th Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC), 12-21 juillet 2021.
"Chemical Analogy, Classification and the Nature of the Halogens", British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) Annual Conference, 7-9 juillet 2021.
2020 :
“Simplicity and analogy : the elementary nature of the halogens”, 6th Panhellenic Conference for the Philosophy of Science, 3-6 Décembre 2020.
"Analogy, Indecomposability and the Discovery of Aluminium", 9th European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, 31 août - 3 septembre 2020
2019 :
"Composition and analogy in 19th-century chemistry : the case of aluminium", European Society for the Philosophy of Science Association 2019 conference, 11-14 septembre 2019
"Understanding the chemical elements : a reflection on the importance of the periodic table", 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, 5-10 août 2019
"The building blocks of matter : the chemical element in 18th and 19th-century views of composition", 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, 5-10 août 2019
"How to investigate the underpinnings of sciences ? The case of the element chlorine", avec Jean-Pierre Llored, Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Torino, 15-17 juillet 2019
"Oxygen and the reactions of life in Lavoisier’s chemistry", Bridging the Philosophies of Biology and Chemistry, Paris, 25-27 juin 2019
"Criteria of Elementhood : Debates on Vanadium, Tantalum and Niobium in 19th century Chemistry", British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, 10-12 avril 2019
2018 :
"Chemical Elements and Chemical Substances : Rethinking Paneth’s Distinction", Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Bristol,16-18 juillet 2018
2017 :
"What Are Elements ? Pragmatic Approach to the Meaning of a Chemical Concept", Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Paris, 3-5 juillet 2017
Sur invitation
2023 :
"The history of chemical elements and the study of scientific concepts in practice", Posgrado en Historia de la Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 27 mars 2023.
2022 :
"The Tantalum Metals (1801-1866) : Nineteenth-Century Analytical Chemistry and the Identification of Chemical Elements", AD HOC (Association for the Discussion of the History of Chemistry), University of Cambridge, 17 octobre 2022
2021 :
"The tantalum metals : Inorganic analysis and elementary nature in 19th-century chemistry", Ateliers d’histoire et philosophie de la physique, Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Cité, 18 mai 2021.
2019 :
"Composition and analogy in 19th-century chemistry : the case of aluminium", Association for the Discussion of the History of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 18 novembre 2019
"Criteria of Elementhood : Debates on Vanadium, Tantalum and Niobium in 19th century Chemistry", Identity in Science & Philosophy, workshop du Laboratoire International Associé (LIA) Identités, Forces, Quanta, Université Paris-Cité, 29-30 juillet 2019
"From Lavoisier to Chancourtois : definitions and classifications of the chemical element", séminaire PHASE-CHIMIE, Université Paris-Cité, 19 juin 2019
GRAND PUBLIC
Blog "Jargonium"
Commissariat de l’exposition "Avant Mendeleïev : Genèse d’un Tableau" au musée de minéralogie à Mines ParisTech
Hijmans, S. et Avenas, P. (nov. 2019), "Alexandre de Chancourtois (X1838), précurseur de Mendeleïev", La Jaune et la Rouge, N°749
