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400Rescuing the Gorgias from LatourPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (4): 395-422. 2006.Bruno Latour has been attempting to transform his sociological account of science into an ambitious theory of democracy. In a key early moment in this project, Latour alleges that Plato’s Gorgias introduces an impossibly ratio-nalistic and deeply anti-democratic philosophy which continues to this day to distort our understandings of science and democracy. Latour reckons that if he can successfully refute the Gorgias , then he will have opened up a space in which to authorize his own theory of de…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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86Philosophy of ScienceIn Sebastian Luft & Søren Overgaard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, . 2011.This chapter briefly summarises work by four key figures in the phenomenological philosophy of science: Edmund Husserl; Martin Heidegger; Patrick Heelan; and Joseph J. Kockelmans. In addition, some comparison is made with well-known figures in mainstream philosophy of science, and suggestions are given for further readings in the phenomenological philosophy of science.
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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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137Popper's CommunitarianismIn Zuzana Parusniková & Robert S. Cohen (eds.), Rethinking Popper (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 272), Springer. pp. 287--303. 2009.In this chapter, I argue that Karl Popper was a communitarian philosopher. This will surprise some readers. Liberals often tout Popper as one of their champions. Indeed, there is no doubt that Popper shared much in common with liberals. However, I will argue that Popper rejected a central, though perhaps not essential, pillar of liberal theory, namely, individualism. This claim may seem to contradict Popper's professed methodological individualism. Yet I argue that Popper was a methodological in…Read more
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116Feenberg and STS: counter-reflections on bridging the gapStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (4): 702-720. 2006.Essay review of Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History (Routledge, 2005).
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508Review of Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics I (review)Isis 102 (3): 594-595. 2011.Review of: Isabelle Stengers (2010), Cosmopolitics I, trans. Robert Bononno (Posthumanities, 9) (Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press).
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182Subjectivity and Emotion in Scientific ResearchStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 44 (3): 354-362. 2013.A persistent puzzle for philosophers of science is the well-documented appeal made by scientists to their aesthetic emotions in the course of scientific research. Emotions are usually viewed as irremediably subjective, and thus of no epistemological interest. Yet, by denying an epistemic role for scientists’ emotional dispositions, philosophers find themselves in the awkward position of ignoring phenomena which scientists themselves often insist are of importance. This paper suggests a possible …Read more
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159Latour's HeideggerSocial Studies of Science 40 (4): 579-598. 2010.Bruno Latour has had a tremendous impact on the field of science studies. Yet, it is not always easy to say what he stands for. Indeed, Latour has often claimed that his work lacks any overall unity. In this essay, I suggest that at least one concept remains constant throughout Latour’s diverse studies of modern science and technology, namely, mediation. I try to make good this claim by focussing on Latour’s numerous attempts over the years to distance himself from, so as to discredit, the philo…Read more
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