Our discipline is devoted to using a wide variety of historical and philosophical approaches to understand two of the most important conceptual and cultural enterprises of the modern world—science and its related discipline, medicine. Our studies share a common aim of understanding how science works. Our department is devoted to using a wide variety of historical and philosophical approaches to understand two of the most important conceptual and cultural enterprises of the modern world—science and its related discipline, medicine. Our studies share a common aim of understanding how science works.