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53The Eggs Speak Up: Review of Fuller's Knowledge (review)Metascience 25 (1). 2016.Contribution to a book symposium on Steve Fuller's _Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History_ (Routledge, 2015). The title reproduces the title of an essay by Hannah Arendt. Fuller uses the idea of theodicy to promote a creationist philosophy of science, according to which one is justified in breaking eggs in order to produce a divine omelette of technologically orchestrated human transcendence. The review nods to Arendt's essay, and a short story by Ursula LeGuin, in challenging this propo…Read more
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50Steve Fuller: Knowledge, the philosophical quest in history: Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015, viii+304pp, $49.95Metascience 25 (1): 3-23. 2015.This is a review symposium on Fuller”s Knowledge: A Philosophical Quest in History
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49Review of Dimitri Ginev, The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism. (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012.04.23). 2012.Review of: Dimitri Ginev (2011), The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism (Athens: Ohio University Press).
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38Scientific Practice and Epistemic Modes of ExistenceIn Dimitri Ginev (ed.), Debating Cognitive Existentialism: Values and Orientations in Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Brill. pp. 95-106. 2015.Proponents of practice-based accounts of science often reject theory-based accounts, and seek to explain scientific theory reductively in terms of practice. I consider two examples: Dimitri Ginev and Joseph Rouse. Both draw inspiration from Martin Heidegger’s existential conception of science. And both allege that Heidegger ultimately betrayed his insight that theory can be reduced to practice when he sought to explain modern science in terms of a theory-based “mathematical projection of nature.…Read more
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38Animism and Science in European PerspectiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 103 46-57. 2024.The European tradition makes a sharp distinction between animism and science. On the basis of this distinction, either animism is reproved for failing to reach the heights of science, or science is reproved for failing to reach the heights of animism. In this essay, I draw on work in the history and philosophy and science, combined with a method from the sociology of scientific knowledge, to question the sharpness of this distinction. Along the way, I also take guidance from the research of Nort…Read more
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16Reason, Emotion, and the Context DistinctionPhilosophia Scientiae 19 35-43. 2015.La recherche empirique et philosophique récente remet en question l’idée selon laquelle raison et émotion sont nécessairement en conflit l’une avec l’autre. Pourtant, les philosophes des sciences ont été lents à réagir à cette recherche. Je soutiens qu’ils continuent à exclure l’émotion de leurs modèles du raisonnement scientifique, parce qu’ils considèrent qu’elle appartient typiquement au contexte de découverte plutôt qu’au contexte de justification. Je suggère toutefois, en prenant pour exemp…Read more
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10Isabelle Stengers. Cosmopolitics I. Translated by, Robert Bononno. viii + 299 pp., index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. $25 (review)Isis 102 (3): 594-595. 2011.
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10Freedom, Forgetting, and Solidarity: A Response to GinevIn Giovanni Galizia & David Schulman (eds.), Forgetting: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, The Hebrew University Magnes Press. pp. 244-246. 2015.This is a brief, invited response to Dimitri Ginev's chapter "Narrating the Self and Narrative Technologies of Forgetting"
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