Byline: Pim van der Heijden

In Part I of the interview Jürgen Renn, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG), spoke about his career and his perception of the relation between science and the history of science. In this sequel he speaks freely about his views on open access. Following the news on the demonstrations of students and professors in…

While still working maniacally on my thesis about the reception of Ernst Cassirer’s work on the history of physics, I let the U3 once again drive me to the green and wealthy Dahlem. This time it was for an interview with Jürgen Renn, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG). It would be our third…