The Third Hellenic Conference on History, Philosophy and Science Teaching (HCHPST) was held in Athens, Greece, from September19 to 25, 2005. Hosted at the National Hellenic Research Foundation facilities, the Conference was attended by more than a hundred science educators and researchers, currently active in the fields of history, philosophy and teaching of science. The Conference was jointly held with the European Physical Society Conference ‘Notions of Physics in Natural Philosophy’ which attracted its own participants from several countries across Europe.
The 3rd H.C.H.P.S.T. hosted several invited speakers, covering a wide range of topics in the history and philosophy of science. Due to the fact that 2005 had been declared ‘World Year of
Physics’ especially devoted to Albert Einstein, a special Round-Table was organized in order to discuss the importance and the impact of Einstein’s work. This was followed by an open discussion. The Conference was deemed a success because of the quality of the papers presented and the great number of attendees.