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17What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the LetterCritical Inquiry 49 (4): 605-625. 2023.Kant’s essay on the question of literary piracy has so far been read as a foundational text in the history of literary property. When Kant refers to the book as a “mute instrument,” scholars of intellectual property already know how to interpret that formulation because they presume the distinction that the contemporary jurisprudence of intellectual property makes between matter and form and its concomitant assumption that print is just an inert, nonagentive medium. In fact, Kant begins his anal…Read more
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12Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in SciencePsychology Press. 2003.Publisher Description.
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14Replicating Mathematical Inventions: Galileo’s Compass, Its Instructions, Its StudentsPerspectives on Science 30 (3): 437-462. 2022.Questions about how closure is achieved in disputes involving new observational or experimental claims have highlighted the role of bodily knowledge possibly irreducible to written experimental protocols and instructions how to build and operate instruments. This essay asks similar questions about a scenario that is both related and significantly different: the replication of an invention, not of an observation or the instrument through which it produced. Furthermore, the machine considered here…Read more
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19Technologies of the law/ law as a technologyHistory of Science 57 (1): 3-17. 2019.Historians of science and technology and STS practitioners have always taken intellectual property very seriously but, with some notable exceptions, they have typically refrained from looking “into” it. There is mounting evidence, however, that they can open up the black box of IP as effectively as they have done for the technosciences, enriching their discipline while making significant contributions to legal studies. One approach is to look at the technologies through which patent law construe…Read more
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29Weighing intellectual property: Can we balance the social costs and benefits of patenting?History of Science 57 (1): 140-163. 2019.The scale is the most famous emblem of the law, including intellectual property (IP). Because IP rights impose social costs on the public by limiting access to protected work, the law can be justified only to the extent that, on balance, it encourages enough creation and dissemination of new works to offset those costs. The scale is thus a potent rhetorical trope of fairness and objectivity, but also an instrument the law thinks with – one that is constantly invoked to justify or to question the…Read more
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37The Science Studies ReaderRoutledge. 1999.1. MARIO BIAGIOLI--Introduction 2. KAREN BARAD--Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices 3. MARIO BIAGIOLI--Aporias of Scientific Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine 4. PIERRE BOURDIEU--The Specificity of Scientific Field and the Social Conditions of the Progress of Reason 5. ROBERT M. BRAIN and M. NORTON WISE--Muscles and Engines: Indicator Diagrams and Helmholtz’s Graphical Methods 6. MICHEL CALLON--Some Elements of a Sociolog…Read more
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128The anthropology of incommensurabilityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (2): 183-209. 1990.
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22Plagiarism, Kinship and SlaveryTheory, Culture and Society 31 (2-3): 65-91. 2014.In conversation with Marilyn Strathern’s work on kinship and especially on metaphors of intellectual and reproductive creativity, this paper provides an analysis of plagiarism not as a violation of intellectual property but of the kinship relationships between author, work, and readers. It also analyzes the role of figures of kidnapped slaves and children in the genealogy of the modern concept of plagiarism.
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3Galileo and Derrida: The book of nature and the logic of supplementRinascimento 43 205-232. 2003.
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20From Difference to Blackboxing: French Theory versus Science Studies' Metaphysics of Presence.”In Sylvère Lotringer & Sande Cohen (eds.), French theory in America, Routledge. pp. 271--87. 2001.
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29Postdisciplinary Liaisons: Science Studies and the HumanitiesCritical Inquiry 35 (4): 816-833. 2009.
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6Galileo, courtier: the practice of science in the culture of absolutism (review)Annals of Science 52 (3): 315-316. 1995.
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20Replication or Monopoly? The Economies of Invention and Discovery in Galileo's Observations of 1610Science in Context 14 (s1): 277-320. 2001.i propose a revisionist account of the production and reception of galileo's telescopic observations of 1609–10, an account that focuses on the relationship between credit and disclosure. galileo, i argue, acted as though the corroboration of his observations were easy, not difficult. his primary worry was not that some people might reject his claims, but rather that those able to replicate them could too easily proceed to make further discoveries on their own and deprive him of credit. conseque…Read more
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Jesuit Science Between Texts and ContextsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (4): 637-646. 1994.
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30From print to patents: Living on instruments in early modern EuropeHistory of Science 44 (2): 139. 2006.
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59Patent republic: Representing inventions, constructing rights and authorsSocial Research: An International Quarterly 73 (4): 1129-1172. 2006.
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51Etiquette, Interdependence, and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century ScienceCritical Inquiry 22 (2): 193-238. 1996.
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8Replication or Monopoly? The Economies of Invention and Discovery in Galileo's Observations of 1610Science in Context 13 (3-4): 547-590. 2000.The ArgumentI propose a revisionist account of the production and reception of Galileo's telescopic observations of 1609–10, an account that focuses on the relationship between credit and disclosure. Galileo, I argue, acted as though the corroboration of his observations were easy, not difficult. His primary worry was not that some people might reject his claims, but rather that those able to replicate them could too easily proceed to make further discoveries on their own and deprive him of cred…Read more
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23Meyerson: Science and the “irrational”Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (1): 5-42. 1988.
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5The article discusses the dichotomy between idea and expression in copyright law in 2012 by focusing on philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte's 1793 work "Proof of the Unlawfulness of Reprinting: A Rationale and a Parable." The author argues that the legal community has overlooked parts of Fichte's claims and have chosen to only apply personal expression to authors. Originality in authorship is also examined in defining what is and is not covered under U.S. copyright law
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