Science in Context is an international journal edited at The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. It is devoted to the study of the sciences from the points of view of comparative epistemology and historical sociology of scientific knowledge. The journal is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of science and its cultural development—it does not segregate considerations drawn from history, philosophy and sociology. Controversies within scientific knowledge and debates about methodology are presented in their contexts.

What is conceptualized as context of scientific knowledge has shifted over the last 30 years. The scientific fields in the focus of historical and epistemological interest have certainly varied. Yet today the initial program of the journal seems more worthwhile pursuing and more widely accepted than ever. The journal has opened up a shared analytical space for scholars from all over the world and aspires to include diverse voices.

»… It is necessary to grasp the specificity of the different images and concepts of knowledge operating within different cultures as a precondition for understanding scientific activity in those cultures. This seems to me to be all the more obvious in the case of India, which has venerable knowledge traditions of its own…«

Kapil Raj: Images of Knowledge, Social Organization, and Attitudes to Research in an Indian Physics Department. In: Science in Context 2 (1988), p. 320.

»… The journal is unusual in being organized around an intellectual program, rather than a special subject or discipline. Successive issues have revealed an ambitious attempt to reconstitute … around a new center, derived from the historical sociology of scientific knowledge and Continental traditions in philosophy. … In a very short time this journal has established itself as one of the leaders of a crowded field.«

James A. Secord: Review of Science in Context by Robert S. Cohen, Yehuda Elkana, Simon Schaffer and Gideon Freudenthal. In: Isis 81 (1990), p. 289-290.

»… Everyone is invited to join in the rethinking — not because it is a worthy intellectual endeavor for academics but because it needs to be done.«

Helga Nowotny: Introduction. In: Science in Context 9,2 (1996), p. 91.