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210Introduction: Reimagining Epistemology and Philosophy of Science from a Global PerspectiveIn Inkeri Koskinen, David Ludwig, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli & Luis Reyes-Galindo (eds.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge. 2021.
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224Philosophy of science in China : politicized, de-politicized, and re-politicizedIn Inkeri Koskinen, David Ludwig, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli & Luis Reyes-Galindo (eds.), Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Routledge. 2021.
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42Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer. What Is Race? Four Philosophical ViewsPhilosophy of Science 88 (1): 184-188. 2021.
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24Intercultural science education as a trading zone between traditional and academic knowledgeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 84 101337. 2020.
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101Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science (edited book)Routledge. 2021.In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global c…Read more
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66Intercultural science education as a trading zone between traditional and academic knowledgeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 101337. forthcoming.
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47Philosophy of Ethnobiology: Understanding Knowledge Integration and Its LimitationsJournal of Ethnobiology (1): 3-20. forthcoming.Ethnobiology has become increasingly concerned with applied and normative issues such as climate change adaptation, forest management, and sustainable agriculture. Applied ethnobiology emphasizes the practical importance of local and traditional knowledge in tackling these issues but thereby also raises complex theoretical questions about the integration of heterogeneous knowledge systems. The aim of this article is to develop a framework for addressing questions of integration through four core…Read more
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572Understanding Race: The Case for Political Constructionism in Public DiscourseCanadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (4): 492-504. 2020.The aim of this article is to develop an understanding-based argument for an explicitly political specification of the concept of race. It is argued that a specification of race in terms of hierarchical social positions is best equipped to guide causal reasoning about racial inequality in the public sphere. Furthermore, the article provides evidence that biological and cultural specifications of race mislead public reasoning by encouraging confusions between correlates and causes of racial inequ…Read more
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13Epistemology from a Global Perspective: Mizumoto, M., Stich, S. P, & McCready, E. (Eds.). (2018). Epistemology for the Rest of the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 320 pp., ISBN: 9780190865085, £55.00 (Hardback) (review)Science & Education 28 (9-10): 1263-1265. 2019.
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618Ethnoontology: Ways of world‐building across culturesPhilosophy Compass (9): 1-11. 2019.This article outlines a program of ethnoontology that brings together empirical research in the ethnosciences with ontological debates in philosophy. First, we survey empirical evidence from heterogeneous cultural contexts and disciplines. Second, we propose a model of cross‐cultural relations between ontologies beyond a simple divide between universalist and relativist models. Third, we argue for an integrative model of ontology building that synthesizes insights from different fields such as b…Read more
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548Philosophy of Ethnobiology: Understanding Knowledge Integration and Its Limitations. Journal of EthnobiologyJournal of Ethnobiology 39. 2019.Ethnobiology has become increasingly concerned with applied and normative issues such as climate change adaptation, forest management, and sustainable agriculture. Applied ethnobiology emphasizes the practical importance of local and traditional knowledge in tackling these issues but thereby also raises complex theoretical questions about the integration of heterogeneous knowledge systems. The aim of this article is to develop a framework for addressing questions of integration through four core…Read more
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102Relating traditional and academic ecological knowledge: mechanistic and holistic epistemologies across culturesBiology and Philosophy 33 (5-6): 43. 2018.Current debates about the integration of traditional and academic ecological knowledge struggle with a dilemma of division and assimilation. On the one hand, the emphasis on differences between traditional and academic perspectives has been criticized as creating an artificial divide that brands TEK as “non-scientific” and contributes to its marginalization. On the other hand, there has been increased concern about inadequate assimilation of Indigenous and other traditional perspectives into sci…Read more
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432Does Cognition Still Matter in Ethnobiology?Ethnobiology Letters 9 (2): 269-275. 2018.Ethnobiology has become increasingly concerned with applied and normative questions about biocultural diversity and the livelihoods of local communities. While this development has created new opportunities for connecting ethnobiological research with ecological and social sciences, it also raises questions about the role of cognitive perspectives in current ethnobiology. In fact, there are clear signs of institutional separation as research on folkbiological cognition has increasingly found its…Read more
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611How Race Travels. Relating Local and Global Ontologies of Race. Philosophical StudiesPhilosophical Studies 1-22. 2018.his article develops a framework for addressing racial ontologies in transnational perspective. In contrast to simple contextualist accounts, it is argued that a globally engaged metaphysics of race needs to address transnational continuities of racial ontologies. In contrast to unificationist accounts that aim for one globally unified ontology, it is argued that questions about the nature and reality of race do not always have the same answers across national contexts. In order address racial o…Read more
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38Compte-rendu: Otto Neurath and the Unity of ScienceLato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 2 (1): 14-16. 2015.Review of John Symons, Olga Pombo, and Juan Manuel Torres. 2011. Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Dordrecht: Springer.
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64Beyond Physicalism and Dualism? Putnam’s Pragmatic Pluralism and the Philosophy of MindEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (1): 245-257. 2011.Although Hilary Putnam has played a significant role in shaping contemporary philosophy of mind, he has more recently criticised its metaphysical foundations as fun-damentally flawed. According to Putnam, the standard positions in the philosophy of mind rest on dubious ontological assumptions which are challenged by his “pragmatic pluralism” and the idea that we can always describe reality in different but equally fun-damental ways. Putnam considers this pluralism about conceptual resources as a…Read more
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896Letting Go of “Natural Kind”: Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Nonarbitrary ClassificationPhilosophy of Science 85 (1): 31-52. 2018.This article uses the case study of ethnobiological classification to develop a positive and a negative thesis about the state of natural kind debates. On the one hand, I argue that current accounts of natural kinds can be integrated in a multidimensional framework that advances understanding of classificatory practices in ethnobiology. On the other hand, I argue that such a multidimensional framework does not leave any substantial work for the notion “natural kind” and that attempts to formulat…Read more
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1389Indigenous and Scientific KindsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68 (1). 2017.The aim of this article is to discuss the relation between indigenous and scientific kinds on the basis of contemporary ethnobiological research. I argue that ethnobiological accounts of taxonomic convergence-divergence patters challenge common philosophical models of the relation between folk concepts and natural kinds. Furthermore, I outline a positive model of taxonomic convergence-divergence patterns that is based on Slater's [2014] notion of “stable property clusters” and Franklin-Hall's [2…Read more
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723Revamping the Metaphysics of Ethnobiological ClassificationCurrent Anthropology 59 (4): 415-438. 2018.Ethnobiology has a long tradition of metaphysical debates about the “naturalness,” “objectivity”, “reality”, and “universality” of classifications. Especially the work of Brent Berlin has been influential in developing a “convergence metaphysics” that explains cross-cultural similarities of knowledge systems through shared recognition of objective discontinuities in nature. Despite its influence on the development of the field, convergence metaphysics has largely fallen out of favor as contempor…Read more
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514Not for Profit. Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 65 (2). 2011.
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660A rediscovery of scientific collections as material heritage? The case of university collections in GermanyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 44 (4): 652-659. 2013.The purpose of this article is twofold: on the one hand, we present the outlines of a history of university collections in Germany. On the other hand, we discuss this history as a case study of the changing attitudes of the sciences towards their material heritage. Based on data from 1094 German university collections, we distinguish three periods that are by no means homogeneous but offer a helpful starting point for a discussion of the entangled institutional and epistemic factors in the histo…Read more
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672The objectivity of local knowledge. Lessons from ethnobiologySynthese 194 (12): 4705-4720. 2017.This article develops an account of local epistemic practices on the basis of case studies from ethnobiology. I argue that current debates about objectivity often stand in the way of a more adequate understanding of local knowledge and ethnobiological practices in general. While local knowledge about the biological world often meets criteria for objectivity in philosophy of science, general debates about the objectivity of local knowledge can also obscure their unique epistemic features. In modi…Read more
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776Hysteria, race, and phlogiston. A model of ontological elimination in the human sciencesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 45 (1): 68-77. 2014.Elimination controversies are ubiquitous in philosophy and the human sciences. For example, it has been suggested that human races, hysteria, intelligence, mental disorder, propositional attitudes such as beliefs and desires, the self, and the super-ego should be eliminated from the list of respectable entities in the human sciences. I argue that eliminativist proposals are often presented in the framework of an oversimplified “phlogiston model” and suggest an alternative account that describes …Read more
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46Mediating Objects. Scientific and Public Functions of Models in Nineteenth-Century BiologyHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 35 (2). 2013.The aim of this article is to examine the scientific and public functions of two- andthree-dimensional models in the context of three episodes from nineteenth-century biology. Iargue that these models incorporate both data and theory by presenting theoretical assumptions inthe light of concrete data or organizing data through theoretical assumptions. Despite their diverseroles in scientific practice, they all can be characterized as mediators between data and theory.Furthermore, I argue that the…Read more
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46New Wave PluralismDialectica 67 (4): 545-560. 2013.The aim of this paper is to develop a pluralist interpretation of the phenomenal concept strategy (PCS). My starting point is Horgan and Tienson's deconstructive argument according to which proponents of PCS face the following dilemma: either phenomenal concepts or physical concepts allow us to conceive phenomenal states as they are in themselves. If phenomenal concepts allow us to conceive phenomenal states as they are in themselves, then phenomenal states are non-physical states and physicalis…Read more
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1691Against the New Metaphysics of RacePhilosophy of Science 82 (2): 244-265. 2015.The aim of this article is to develop an argument against metaphysical debates about the existence of human races. I argue that the ontology of race is underdetermined by both empirical and non-empirical evidence due to a plurality of equally permissible candidate meanings of "race." Furthermore, I argue that this underdetermination leads to a deflationist diagnosis according to #hich disputes about the existence of human races are non-substantive verbal disputes. $hile this diagnosis resembles …Read more
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94Hysteria, Race, Phlogiston. A Model of Ontological Elimination in the Human Sciences.Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (1): 68-77. 2013.Elimination controversies are ubiquitous in philosophy and the human sciences. For example, it has been suggested that human races, hysteria, intelligence, mental disorder, propositional attitudes such as beliefs and desires, the self, and the super-ego should be eliminated from the list of respectable entities in the human sciences. I argue that eliminativist proposals are often presented in the framework of an oversimplified “phlogiston model” and suggest an alternative account that describes …Read more
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961Ontological Choices and the Value-Free IdealErkenntnis (6): 1-20. 2015.The aim of this article is to argue that ontological choices in scientific practice undermine common formulations of the value-free ideal in science. First, I argue that the truth values of scientific statements depend on ontological choices. For example, statements about entities such as species, race, memory, intelligence, depression, or obesity are true or false relative to the choice of a biological, psychological, or medical ontology. Second, I show that ontological choices often depend on …Read more
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58Ontological Choices and the Value-Free IdealErkenntnis 81 (6): 1253-1272. 2016.The aim of this article is to argue that ontological choices in scientific practice undermine common formulations of the value-free ideal in science. First, I argue that the truth values of scientific statements depend on ontological choices. For example, statements about entities such as species, race, memory, intelligence, depression, or obesity are true or false relative to the choice of a biological, psychological, or medical ontology. Second, I show that ontological choices often depend on …Read more
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2802Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledgePhilosophical Psychology (3): 1-14. 2014.The aim of this article is to show that externalist accounts of cognition such as Clark and Chalmers' (1998) “active externalism” lead to an explosion of knowledge that is caused by online resources such as Wikipedia and Google. I argue that externalist accounts of cognition imply that subjects who integrate mobile Internet access in their cognitive routines have millions of standing beliefs on unexpected issues such as the birth dates of Moroccan politicians or the geographical coordinates of v…Read more
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Wageningen University and ResearchCommunication, Philosophy and Technology (CPT)Associate Professor
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands