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,…
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Citizen Science and
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…
Models, Parameterization,
Models, Parameterization, 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…
Mess in Science and
Mess in Science and Wicked Problems Jutta Schickore Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University This paper discusses the claim that science is “messy.” Part I argues first, that a good…
Kuhn, Condorcet,
Kuhn, Condorcet, and Comte: On the Justification of the “Old” Historiography of Science J. C. Pinto de Oliveira Department of Philosophy, IFCH, State University of Campinas, Brazil Despite the importance of the “historiographical revolution” in…
Science, Sensibility and
Science, Sensibility and Gender in Argentina, 1820–1852 Adriana Novoa Department of History, University of South Florida This article analyzes how scientific thinking evolved in Argentina during the 1820s and 1830s. I will focus on liberals’…
Intersubjective Accountability:
Intersubjective Accountability: Politics and Philosophy in the Left Vienna Circle Thomas Uebel The University of Manchester In different places Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath affirmed “a noteworthy agreement” and an “inner link” between their philosophy…
“True Empiricism”:
“True Empiricism”: The Stakes of the Cousin-Schelling Controversy Daniel Whistler Royal Holloway, University of London Between 1833 and 1835, Victor Cousin and F.W.J. Schelling engaged in an “amical but serious critique” of each other’s philosophies….
Interdisciplinarities in Action:
Interdisciplinarities in Action: Cognitive Ethnography of Bioengineering Sciences Research Laboratories Nancy J. Nersessian Harvard University The paper frames interdisciplinary research as creating complex, distributed cognitive-cultural systems. It introduces and elaborates on the method of cog-…
Can a Methodology
Can a Methodology Subvert the Logics of its Principal? Decolonial Meditations Nokuthula Hlabangane University of South Africa This paper raises a question that is fundamental in the relationship between Euro-Western knowledge as a system of…