http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/taxonomy/term/26 fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/130 Epistemology History of Science Sociology of Science Technology <p>Written for a large public interested in renewing the understanding of scientific practice and its connection with the rest of society this book uses anecdotes, case studies, examples from many different periods and disciplines, to define rules of methods which can be used in following scientists around; the key role is given to non-humans, that is to associations that cut accross the former divide between nature and society. It can be used as a general introduction to science studies.</p> Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:04:49 +0000 admin 130 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/161 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/161" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Epistemology Philosophy Viualization <p>It has become of great interest to inquire into the history of what Whitehead called « bifurcation of nature ». This history is possible provided we connect art history with science history to dig into the reasons why the distinction between primary and secondary qualities has been thought so central since the time of Locke all the way to the present debates around « naturalism ».</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:47:58 +0000 admin 161 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/164 Epistemology History of Science Philosophy <p>Whitehead is very difficult and somewhat neglected thinker. Isabelle Stengers has succeeded in offering a systematic reading of his scientific as well as his theological arguments. The result is a crucial contribution to a metaphysics that reopen the question of what Whitehead had called the ‘bifurcation of nature’, that is, the unwarranted distinction between primary and secondary qualities. The result, according to this review, is a serious proposition for a second empiricism.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:02:02 +0000 admin 164 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/166 Compositionism Epistemology <p>Constructivism is a much abused word. But since Ian Hacking has done a review of some of his meanings, an effort is made to see how it can be rescued from the disrepute of ‘social’ constructivism. Special stress is put on the metaphors of construction and on the models of action implied by its different meanings. An alternative is offered to the classification offered by Hacking and a strong contrast is established between constrcution and deconstruction</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:25:56 +0000 admin 166 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/191 Epistemology Philosophy Sociology of Science <p>There is a traditionnal opposition between the time/space categories of physics and the lived space and time of phenomenology. The paper, using Piaget’s understanding of formalism as an anti-model, explores how this dichotomy has been devised, why it cannot be sustained as soon as the study of scientific and technical practice re-embeds time and space production inside metrological networks, and, finally, offers an alternative account of time and space production that is based on another theory of « the exploration » of Being.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:28:21 +0000 admin 191 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/226 Epistemology Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>The philosophical problem of an history of objects, and not only of the history of the « discovery” of an object is tackled in this theoretical article that uses an empirical example -an article by Pasteur- and Whithead’s philosophy. It explores on which conditions, according to Whithead, it would be possible to overcome the limits of « social” explanations of realism without falling back on the realism of the past.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0000 admin 226 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/378 Epistemology History of Science <p>-Would you say that Isabelle Stengers is the greatest French philosopher of science?<br /> -Yes, except she is from Belgium a country that exists only in part and where, contrary to France, the link between science and the state is nil.<br /> -Would you say that she is the philosophical right-hand of the Nobel Prize winner of chemistry Ilya Prigogine?<br /> -Yes, since she wrote several books with him, and yet she has spent the rest of her life trying to escape from the mass of lunatics attracted to this “New Alliance” between science and culture they both wrote together.</p> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:25:43 +0000 admin 378 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/445 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/445" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Epistemology <p>Prijatelj znanstvenik je Bruna Latoura iznenada vprašal: »Ali verjameš v resničnost?« Daljnosežno vprašanje je sprožilo nastanek knjige Pandorino upanje. Latour pred bralcem razgrinja argumente in ideje, ki so pripeljali do verjetja v resničnost, neodvisno od človeške interakcije. V odgovorih sega daleč v zgodovino k Platonovim dilemam o resnici in pravici ter nazadnje pokaže na pravo tveganje v vojnah znanosti: negotovo pokoritev navadnega mnoštva pred vojskujočimi se silami branilcev dokončne Resnice.</p> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:53:15 +0000 admin 445 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/724 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/724" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology Epistemology Philosophy Social Theory <p>A San Giorgio Dialog at the invitation of the Cini Foundation, in Venice, 12th-15th of September 2017<br /> with Didier Debaise, Scott Gilbert, Bruno Karsenti, Bruno Latour, Tim Lenton, Mike Lynch, Kyle McGee, Tim Mitchell, Isabelle Stengers, Simon Schaffer, Shirley Strum, David Western</p> Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:15:44 +0000 admin 724 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/838 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/838" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology Epistemology History of Science Politics <p>You want me to land on Earth? Why?<br /> — Because you’re hanging in midair, headed for a crash.<br /> — How is it down there?<br /> — Pretty tense.<br /> — A war zone?<br /> — Close: a Critical Zone, a few kilometers thick, where everything happens.<br /> — Is it habitable?<br /> — Depends on your chosen science.<br /> — Will I survive down there?<br /> — Depends on your politics.</p> Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:41:00 +0000 admin 838 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr