Search Results for history of science

... ago, my colleague Peter McLaughlin and I, probably like most historians of biology once in their life, were musing about the work of Gregor Mendel and its place in the historical fate of genetics. We produced a poster for the International Congress for the History of Science then to take place...

... sparked a new epistemology of political knowledge, one that is now common in data science, in which designers and users prioritize correlation over causality and the instrumental management of problems over scholarly understanding or explanation. Far from a historical curiosity, this history is a warning...

...Lorraine Daston Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is the bestselling and most-cited book ever published in the history and philosophy of science. Yet very few scholars in those fields would now endorse the book’s main claims, and many are critical of its central premise...

...Beatrice Jauregui This article theorizes ongoing US-led global warfare as a “positive science” based in communal, familial, and humanistic values manifest in outreach practices conducted by the US Army. Analyzing the history of recruitment and recently developed resilience training and civil...

... and social sciences has obscured the value of thin description as a method. Focusing on the work of Erving Goffman as well as large-scale collaborative projects such as the Natural History of an Interview, Love suggests that microanalyses of observed behavior provide a model for reading across disciplines...

... that others like Ricoeur or Michel de Certeau tried so hard to settle at a time when the social sciences nurtured an inferiority complex visvis quan- titative and positivist models so popular in the natural sciences.48 The “histori- cal” qualifier attached to this “sociology” has very little to do...

... Mobilities, and the Urban Condition . London : Routledge . Guha Thakurta Tapati . 2004 . Monuments, Objects, Histories: Art in Colonial and Post -colonial India . New York : Columbia University Press . Haraway Donna . 2016 . A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist...

... is an attempt to offer to history—and I hope the humanistic sciences—a significance that, I believe, it deserves in our lives and our world. It is my attempt to recover the multiple times and various temporalities that simultaneously operate in our worlds. My hope is that by finding a history without chronology...

... des Sciences Politiques. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1987 . Subaltern studies: Deconstructing historiography. In In Other Worlds. New York: Methuen. Stoler, Ann Laura. In this issue. Colonial aphasia: Race and disabled histories in France . Young, Robert J. C. In this issue. Bayart's...

... an actor’s category in biomedicine. References 1 Ankeny Rachel Leonelli Sabina . 2011 . “ What Is So Special about Model Organisms? ” Studies in the History and the Philosophy of Science: Part A 42 , no. 3 : 313 – 23 . doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.11.039 . 2 Barnes Barry...

...Homi Bhabha Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 RAEAND TWttUMANITl€S TttE: “€NDS” OF MODERNITY? In the inaoduction to her authoritative history of The Idea @Race in Science Nancy Stepan finds herself in agreement with George W. Stocking, “that trying...

... even define mathemat- ics. What we call “mathematics” is a result of a contingent history. There’s this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathemat- ics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what we call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences...

...B. R. Cohen 2014 B. R. Cohen (BC): Because your scholarship in the history of science and technology is now paired with a blossoming career in documentary filmmaking, and because there are any number of ways we could get started in our discussion, let me begin with the film work. Your...

... Journal of Epidemiology 30 , no. 3 : 928 – 34 . doi: 10.1093/ije/30.5.928 . 5 Bing Frederick . 1971 . “ The History of the Word ‘Metabolism.’ ” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 26 , no. 3 : 158 – 80 . doi: 10.1093/jhmas/XXVI.2.158 . 6 Buchakjian Marisa...

...Sonja van Wichelen The legal historian Mario Biagioli and the anthropologist of science Alain Pottage describe for instance how the turn to bioinformation is impacting the core principles of patent law. Analyzing the history of patentability via the context of plant breeding, biotechnology...

.... London: Routledge. Chakravarty , Anita . 1995. “Writing History.” Economic and Political Weekly 30 , no. 51 (23 December): 3320 . Chatterjee , Partha . 1986. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? London: Zed Books. Furnas , Joseph C. 1937...

... about this moment of adoption by biology. He offers a series of definitions from natural science textbooks that strip the term of its vio- lent social history, reducing it to bare fact, which he summarizes as follows: “The parasite exists at the expense of another living organism which is called...

.... Shirk Jennifer Zuckerberg Benjamin 2014 . “ The Invisible Prevalence of Citizen Science in Global Research: Migratory Birds and Climate Change .” PLoS ONE 9 , no. 2 : e106508 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0106508 . Erickson Amanda . 2012 . “ A Brief History of the Birth of Urban...

... on the history of political thought, we looked at American positivist political science of the 1950s and 1960s and some critiques. As an undergraduate, you think that if something has been convincingly critiqued, that must be the end of it. So my other...

... of biological resources, is tethered to history, environment, society, and culture and how the state and science are implicated in the “thickening” or “thinning” of data. Sustainability, Christo Sims and Akshita Sivakumar maintain, seems like something that technoscientific experts and state power can...