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47Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscapeThe European Legacy 10 (2): 149-162. 2005.Landscape took on a new meaning through the new science of plant geography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1857). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, “landscape” was foremost a painterly genre. Slowly, painted landscapes came to bear on natural surroundings, but by 1800 it was still not common to designate sites as “landscapes.” Humboldt looked at plant vegetation with a painterly gaze. Artists, according to him, could suggest in their work that an abstract unity lay hidden underneath o…Read more
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39An “ecological” view of styles of science and of art: Alois Riegl’s explorations of the style conceptStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (4): 610-618. 2012.This paper compares the views of styles of science of Alistair Crombie and Ian Hacking with the notion of styles of art, as developed by Alois Riegl at the end of the 19th Century. Important similarities are noted, notably in the conceptualization of the autonomy of styles. Riegl developed in particular the notion of Kunstwollen , which encompasses an implied relation to the world, in both a cognitive and an ethical sense, and a relation to the public of art. The latter aspect will be examined a…Read more
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16Styles of Knowing: A new history of science from ancient times to the presentUniversity of Pittsburgh Press. 2011.Now available in English, Styles of Knowing explores the development of various scientific reasoning processes in cultural-historical context. Influenced by historian Alistair Crombie’s Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition, Chunglin Kwa organizes his book according to six distinct styles: deductive, experimental, analytical-hypothetical, taxonomic, statistical, and evolutionary. Instead of featuring individual scientific disciplines in different chapters, each chapter explains…Read more
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12Book Reviews : The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process, by Maarten A. Hajer. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995, xi + 332 pp. £30.00 (review)Science, Technology and Human Values 23 (2): 245-248. 1998.
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6Ecological theories and Dutch nature conservationBiodiversity and Conservation 9. 2000.This paper aims to achieve insight into various ecological theories in the Netherlands which have different, and sometimes opposing, views on the conservation of nature. Interviews, publications and archival research brought to light four separate.
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6Building bridges: connecting science, technology and philosophy: essays presented to Hans Radder (edited book)VU University Press. 2014.What is the future of science and technology? Will academic research become a commodity like so much else? Will technology and science become ever more intertwined? Such questions concern anyone to whom science and technology matter. A philosophical approach can shed light on them, as Hans Radder has amply shown. This volume contains essays by colleagues and friends that highlight the wide variety of topics he has addressed in his work. Whether it is the interaction between science, technology a…Read more
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Scientific and Social Problems and Perspectives of Alternative Medicine: analysis of a Dutch ControversyRadical Philosophy 41 2. 1985.
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Building Bridges. Connecting Science, Technology and Philosophy (edited book)VU University Press. 2014.
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