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L'invention des sciences modernes

Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782081249646
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book L'invention des sciences modernes written by Isabelle Stengers and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis qu'elles existent, les sciences dites exactes se prétendent différentes des autres savoirs. Comment comprendre cette prétention ? Faut-il, à la manière des épistémologues anglo-saxons ou de Karl Popper, tenter d'identifier les critères qui la justifient ? Peut-on, suivant le modèle nouveau des études sociales des sciences, y voir une simple croyance ? Ce livre propose un dépassement fructueux de l'opposition, apparemment irréductible, entre ces deux approches des sciences. Et si la tension entre objectivité scientifique et croyance était justement constitutive des sciences, enjeu des pratiques inventées et réinventées par les scientifiques ? Réussir à en parler avec humour, sans en faire un objet de vénération ni de dénonciation, en restant au plus proche de la passion des scientifiques, tel est ici le pari d'Isabelle Stengers. Mais ce livre ne se limite pas à un discours sur les sciences. Il s'agit plutôt de prolonger l'histoire de leur invention. Comment comprendre les liens multiples entre la science et les pouvoirs qui la mobilisent aujourd'hui ? Comment concevoir les rapports entre science, expertise et démocratie ? La nouveauté de L'Invention des sciences modernes est de faire de ces différents problèmes intellectuels, pratiques et politiques les enjeux du processus par où pourrait s'inventer et se renouveler l'identité même des sciences.

The Invention of Modern Science

Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630561
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Modern Science written by Isabelle Stengers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond the apparently irreconcilable positions, that science is either "objective" or "socially constructed." Instead, suggests Isabelle Stengers, one of the most important and influential philosophers of science in Europe, we might understand the tension between scientific objectivity and belief as a necessary part of science, central to the practices invented and reinvented by scientists."--pub. desc.

The Invention of Modern Science

Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630554
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Modern Science written by Isabelle Stengers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond the apparently irreconcilable positions, that science is either "objective" or "socially constructed." Instead, suggests Isabelle Stengers, one of the most important and influential philosophers of science in Europe, we might understand the tension between scientific objectivity and belief as a necessary part of science, central to the practices invented and reinvented by scientists."--pub. desc.

Fontenelle et l'invention de l'histoire des sciences à l'aube des Lumières

Author : Simone Mazauric
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fontenelle et l'invention de l'histoire des sciences à l'aube des Lumières written by Simone Mazauric and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si Fontenelle (1657-1757) est surtout connu comme l'auteur d'un ouvrage de " vulgarisation scientifique ", les Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686), on sait généralement beaucoup moins qu'il a exercé durant plus de quarante ans la fonction de secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des sciences créée par Colbert en 1666. C'est dans le cadre de cette fonction qu'il a rédigé, avec un talent exceptionnel, les Eloges des académiciens décédés et les volumes de l'Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, qui constituent les textes fondateurs d'une nouvelle discipline, l'histoire des sciences, que philosophes et savants comme Voltaire, d'Alembert et Condorcet, Montucla et Bailly, pratiqueront à leur tour tout au long du XVIIIe siècle, et dont la pratique s'est depuis lors constamment poursuivie. C'est cette " invention " de l'histoire des sciences que l'ouvrage de Simone Mazauric se propose de reconstituer, en rappelant d'abord les circonstances particulières et tout à fait remarquables de sa composition, au premier rang desquelles figure la fondation des grandes académies scientifiques européennes. Mais aussi et avant tout, cet ouvrage permet de découvrir la manière dont, pour la première fois, cet événement majeur dans l'ordre intellectuel qu'a constitué la naissance de la science moderne en Europe a pu être perçu et interprété par celui dont ses successeurs, même pour s'en distancier, ne cesseront de s'inspirer.

Empire of Meaning

Author : François Dosse
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816629640
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Meaning written by François Dosse and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outgrowth of Dosse's History of Structuralism, Empire of Meaning is an extended encounter with some of the most influential French intellectuals. Through interviews and readings, Dosse reveals what has become of the intellectuals of the generation of '68 as they have tried to work out the implications of their revolt against structuralism and the problem of cold war existence. Paul Ricoeur, Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, Roger Chartier, Marcel Gauchet, Dany-Robert Dufour, and Michel Serres are among the many figures whose words and work unfold in these pages.

Power and Invention

Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816625178
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Power and Invention written by Isabelle Stengers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the law of thermodynamics, one of today's most penetrating and celebrated thinkers sets out to explain the consequences of nonlinear dynamics (or chaos theory) for philosophy and science. Concerned with the interplay between science, society, and power, Isabelle Stengers offers a unique perspective on the power of scientific theories to modify society, and vice versa. 9 diagrams.

From Geopolitics to Global Politics

Author : Jacques Lévy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780714681450
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book From Geopolitics to Global Politics written by Jacques Lévy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the weakening of the nation-state and the globalizing tendencies of the 21st century, this compilation of writings looks at international wars, boundaries, cultural conflict and world economy in a bid to address the changing relationship between politics and geography.

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738183298
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book written by and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care

Author : François Champagne
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692219
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care written by François Champagne and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-05-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge and exploring some of the challenges and limits of evidence in different health care contexts. Louise Lemieux-Charles and François Champagne have brought together an esteemed group of scholars to provide a conceptual framework that illustrates the factors critical to analysing and optimizing the use of knowledge and evidence. Previous studies have focused primarily on the medical literature without acknowledging the social sciences tradition. With its integration of works from political science, public policy, informatics, and other disciplines, Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care provides a bridge between both worlds. By bringing together different views on the topic, the volume goes beyond strict disciplinary boundaries to provide the fullest exploration of knowledge and evidence in health care.

A Different Society Altogether

Author : Roar Høstaker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144386238X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A Different Society Altogether written by Roar Høstaker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a society? Within sociology and political science, theoretical debates are typically concerned with how societies can be studied in the best possible way. Despite the importance of these epistemological questions, it is timely to ask what kinds of entities compose society, what the relationship between them might be and whether humans may be said to live in ‘societies’ at all. How do we conceive of a sociological theory that takes these fundamental – and more ontological – problems seriously? This book suggests some solutions based on the anthropology of science of Bruno Latour and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The central argument is that these thinkers provide perspectives which can both reinvigorate the theoretical debates within sociology and provide better analytical tools for social research. Although sociology does not adhere to the letter of Durkheim’s dictum that society should be studied as an object, or of Weber’s theory that only meaningful relations are of interest, it still owes these two forefathers a great deal. Their intellectual influence has made it notoriously difficult to reconceptualize social thought from within the discipline itself. As a result, sociology has become entrenched in an unwarranted anthropocentrism, an inability to integrate language and technical objects as part of its analytical foundation, and a marked subordination to ‘state thinking’. By introducing concepts like the collective of humans and non-humans, event, plane and assemblage, this book indicates new avenues for empirical research which will make a break away from the established patterns possible. Unfortunately, many previous applications of Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking within the social sciences leave much to be desired. A recurrent phenomenon has been the rather imprecise treatment of their concepts. Furthermore, analyses of their concepts are not much more than meta-commentaries on meta-commentaries. To redress these shortcomings, this book presents a more thorough reception of this body of philosophy within the framework of sociological theory.

Between Enlightenment and Disaster

Author : Linda Sangolt
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052016313
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Between Enlightenment and Disaster written by Linda Sangolt and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern politics is highly science-dependent and knowledge-driven. What is the rightful role of expert knowledge in political life? How can the truth claims of science be reconciled with principles of democratic control and lay participatory rights in decision-making? This collection of essays by political scientists, sociologists and economists from Germany, France and Norway provides different empirical and theoretical analyses of the complex organising and legitimising power of knowledge in political governance. The authors shed light on key dimensions and dilemmas that have shaped the world-changing interrelations between politics, social institutions and scientific knowledge in the past century. The contributions cover issue-areas and policy-fields such as population control, health economics, ICTs and higher education reform, and the politics of productivity and economic pre-eminence.

A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature

Author : Diederik Aerts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400708564
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature written by Diederik Aerts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change. Of major concern, in this era of transformation, is the extensive and profound interaction of humankind with nature. The global-scale social and technological project of humankind definitely involves a myriad of changes of the ecosphere. This book develops, from the call for an interdisciplinary synthesis and respect of plurality, acknowledging the evolving scientific truth, to the need for an integrated but inevitably provisional worldview. Contributors from different parts of the world focus on four modes of change: (i) Social change and the individual condition, (ii) Complex evolution and fundamental emergent transformations, (iii) Ecological transformation and responsibility inquiries, (iv) The economic-ecological and socio-technical equilibria. Primarily concerned with the deep transformations of humankind and of the relationship between humans and nature, it is addressed to a broad and thinking public that wants to be kept informed.

Glossary of Morphology

Author : Federico Vercellone
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030513246
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Glossary of Morphology written by Federico Vercellone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape. Morphology is both an ancient and a new discipline that rests on Goethe's heritage and re-forms it in the present through the concepts of form and image. The latter are to be understood as structural elements of a new cultural grammar able to make the late modern world intelligible. In particular, compared to the original Goethean project, but also to C.P. Snow's idea of unifying the “two cultures”, the fields of morphological culture that are the object of this glossary have profoundly changed. The ever-increasing importance of the image as a polysemic form has made the two concepts absolutely transitive, so to speak. This is concomitant with the emergence of a culture that revolves around the image, attracting the verbal logos into its orbit. Incidentally, even the hermeneutic relationship between past and present relies more and more on the image, causing deep changes in cultural environments. Form and image are not just bridging concepts, as in the field of ancient morphology, but real transitive concepts that define the state of a culture. From the Internet to smartphones, television, advertising, etc., we are witnessing – as Horst Bredekamp observes – an immense mass of images that fill our time and affect the most diverse areas of our culture. The ancient connection between science and art recalled by Goethe emerges with unusual evidence thanks to intersecting patterns and expressive forms that are sometimes shared by different forms of knowledge. Creating a glossary and a culture of these intersections is the task of morphology, which thus enters into the boundaries between aesthetics, art, design, advertising, and sciences (from mathematics to computer science, to physics, and to biology), in order to provide the founding elements of a grammar and a syntax of the image. The latter, in its formal quality, both expressive and symbolic, is a fundamental element in the unification of the various kinds of knowledge, which in turn come to be configured, in this regard, also as styles of vision. The glossary is subdivided into contiguous sections, within a complex framework of cross-references. In addition to the two curators, the book features the collaboration of a team of scholars from the individual disciplines appearing in the glossary.

Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America

Author : María del Pilar Blanco
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683403983
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America written by María del Pilar Blanco and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination. It highlights the important relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history. Scholars from a variety of fields including literature, sociology, and geography bring to light many of the cultural exchanges that have produced and spread scientific knowledge from the early colonial period to the present day. Among many topics, these essays describe ideas on health and anatomy in a medical text from sixteenth-century Mexico, how fossil discoveries in Patagonia inspired new interpretations of the South American landscape, and how Argentinian physicist Rolando García influenced climate change research and the field of epistemology. Through its interdisciplinary approach, Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America shows that such scientific advancements fueled a series of visionary utopian projects throughout the region, as countries grappling with the legacy of colonialism sought to modernize and to build national and regional identities.

Biographies of Scientific Objects

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226136721
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Biographies of Scientific Objects written by Lorraine Daston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.

Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe

Author : Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351185330
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe written by Laurence Roulleau-Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on. It argues that knowledge is organised in conceptual spaces linked to paradigms and programmes which in turn are linked to ethnocentred knowledge processes; that until recently Western approaches, including Post-Colonial, French Social Science and American approaches, have dominated non-Western theories; and that Western theories have sometimes seemed incapable of explaining phenomena produced in other societies. It goes on to argue that the blurring of boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies is very important; and that such a Post-Western approach will mean co-production and co-construction of common knowledge, the recognition of ignored or forgotten scientific cultures and a "global change" in sociology which imposes theoretical and methodological detours, displacements, reversals and conversions. The book brings together a wide range of Western and Chinese sociologists who explore the consequences of this new approach in relation to many different issues and aspects of sociology.

New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan

Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644849
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan written by Helen Hardacre and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays on Meiji Japan, written by scholars from nine nations, reflect a determination to destabilize existing paradigms in the social sciences and humanities, in favor of a multiplicity of perspectives that privilege subjectivity and the inclusion of non-elite groups.