Investigating Interdisciplinary Practice: Methodological Challenges (Introducción) Miles MacLeod University of Twente Martina Merz University of Klagenfurt Uskali Mäki University of Helsinki Michiru Nagatsu University of Helsinki Interdisciplinarity (ID) is one of the most prominent ideas driving science and research policy today.1 It is applied widely as a conception of what particularly creative and socially relevant research processes should consist of, whether in the natural sciences,

Comprensión, virtually: How does the synthetic cell matter? Paper for Perspectives on Science, special issue on virtual entities in science Authors and Affiliations: Daphne Broeks (Radboud University) Tarja Knuuttila (Universidad de Viena) Henk de Regt (Radboud University) 1 Abstract This paper examines how scientific understanding is enhanced by virtual entities, focusing on the case of the synthetic cell. Comparing it to other virtual entities and

Towards a Genealogy of Thomas Kuhn’s Semantics Pablo Melogno University of the Republic, Uruguay Leandro Giri National University of Tres de Febrero / National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina This paper explores Thomas Kuhn’s intellectual history by examining sources that have been understudied so far: the Lowell Lectures of 1951 (The Quest for Physical Theory) and the hitherto unpublished Notre Dame Lectures of 1980.

Bruno Latour’s Science Is Politics By Other Means: Between Politics and Ontology Eve Seguin Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Laurent-Olivier Lord University of Cambridge, United Kingdom l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . / e d u p o

Making the Physical Real in the Psychical: How Intoxicants Intervened in the Formation of the Biological Subject in the Nineteenth Century Matthew Perkins-McVey Dalhousie University This paper explores the formative role of substances of intoxication in the social and scientific establishment of the biological subject in late nineteenth-century Germany. Sourcing the emergence of substances of intoxication as “vital sub- stances” from Brunonianism, this narrative traces

“Trust No One But Yourself”: William Gilbert’s Use of Experiment and Rejection of Authority, Reconsidered Johanna Luggin Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . One of the most important components of early modern science

Resources of Intellectual Legitimacy in Italian Cosmological Affairs: Cremonini and Bellarmine’s Authority Conflict (c.1616) Pietro Daniel Omodeo Ca’ Foscari University of Venice This essay deals with two seventeenth-century intellectuals, the Aristotelian philosopher at Padua, Cesare Cremonini, and the Jesuit controversist, Robert Bellarmine. In the years of the cosmological affair of 1616, both defended their cosmological conceptions by relying on the principle of authority. Sin embargo, ellos

Replicating Mathematical Inventions: Galileo’s Compass, Its Instructions, Its Students Mario Biagioli School of Law and Department of Communication, UCLA Questions about how closure is achieved in disputes involving new observa- tional or experimental claims have highlighted the role of bodily knowledge possibly irreducible to written experimental protocols and instructions how to build and operate instruments. This essay asks similar questions about a sce- nario that

The Hidden Praeceptor: How Georg Rheticus Taught Geocentric Cosmology to Europe Matteo Valleriani Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Technische Universität Berlin Tel Aviv University Beate Federau Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Olya Nicolaeva University of Zürich A corpus of 360 distinct early modern printed editions (de 1472 a 1650) containing Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera is “dissected” into

‘For the Sciences Migrate, Just Like People’: The Case of Botanical Knowledge in the Early Modern Iberian Empires Ran Segev Universität Hamburg In his writings, Francis Bacon emphasized the interrelatedness between the migration of people and knowledge, arguing that Europeans of his time had surpassed the greatest civilizations because of their ability to traverse the world freely. Concentrating on Spanish observers who investigated New Spain’s

In the Name of Human Adaptation: Japanese American “Hybrid Children” and Racial Anthropology in Postwar Japan Jaehwan Hyun Pusan National University, South Korea l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . By focusing on the emergence and integration of “hybrid children”

The Material Turn in the Study of Form: From Bio-Inspired Robots to Robotics-Inspired Morphology Marco Tamborini Department of Philosophy Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany This paper investigates the mechanisms of knowledge production of twenty-first century robotics-inspired morphology. How robotics influences investigations into the structure, desarrollo, and change of organic forms? Which definition of form is presupposed by this new approach to the study of form? I

Two Exploratory Uses for General Circulation Models in Climate Science Joseph Wilson University of Colorado at Boulder In this paper I present two ways in which climate modelers use general circulation models for exploratory purposes. The complexity of Earth’s climate system makes it difficult to predict precisely how lower-order climate dynamics will interact over time to drive higher-order dynamics. The same issues arise for complex

Biological Control Variously Materialized: Modeling, Experimentation and Exploration in Multiple Media Tarja Knuuttila University of Vienna Andrea Loettgers University of Vienna l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . / e d u p o s c / a r t

The Politics of Carnap’s Non-Cognitivism and the Scientific World-Conception of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism Christian Damböck Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . Based on a reconstruction of the development of Rudolf Carnap’s views from

Interpreting the History of Evolutionary Biology through a Kuhnian Prism: Sense or Nonsense? Koen B. Tanghe Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Lieven Pauwels Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Alexis De Tiège Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Johan Braeckman Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Traditionally, Thomas S. Kuhn’s

Citizen Science and Scientific Objectivity: Mapping Out Epistemic Risks and Benefits Baptiste Bedessem Université de Lyon, France Stéphanie Ruphy Ecole normale supeŕioure— Université PSL, France l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . Given the importance of the issue of scientific

Modelos, Parametrización, and Software: Epistemic Opacity in Computational Chemistry Frédéric Wieber Université de Lorraine, Archives Henri Poincaré—PReST Alexandre Hocquet Université de Lorraine, Archives Henri Poincaré—PReST l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p : / / directo . m i t . / e d u p o s c