http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/taxonomy/term/37 en http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/49 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/49" target="_blank">read more</a></p> History of Science Modes of Existence Sociology of Science <p>The paper starts by a visit to an exhibit at the Natural History Museum in New York which shows in parallel series of fossils of horse evolution and series of how paleontologists have varied in their reconstruction of this evolution. It is the occasion to test again an argument at the heart of science studies and history of science : is there a history of science ideas about nature, or also a history of the objects known by science. If the latter is the case, then do we have the philosophical ressource to think this change of conception through ?</p> Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:19:59 +0000 admin1 49 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/146 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/146" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Modes of Existence <p>For twenty years a systematic philosophical project has been pursued on the side: that is, to compare each of the ways in which truth production are being defined in the European tradition inside which philosophy has developed. Thus, to the analysis of networks that has been the main object of publications so far, another feature has to be added: the “key » in which each type of network is able to spread, this key defining for each “mode of existence » the felicity and infelicity conditions necessary to grasp it.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:05:34 +0000 admin 146 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/147 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/147" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Modes of Existence Religion Studies <p>Using for the first time explicitly some of the results of the Inquiry into the Modes of Existence, the paper tackles the difficult question of the relations between ecology and theology. It first elicits the contrast between science –reference- and religion –presence- in their common opposition with common sense. Then, following Whitehead, it takes apart the notion of “nature » to show that it is composed of two different modes of existence (building on 99).</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:09:22 +0000 admin 147 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/149 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/149" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Modes of Existence Social Theory <p>Although theories of organizations have analyzed many formal and informal types of organizations, they often fail to follow the specificity of the organizational mode of existence because they suppose the very existence of macro-actors instead of looking at how organizations attempt to solve practically this problem. This essay in organization theory reviews some of the difficulties in tracing the specific path of organizing (taken as a gerund).</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:43:08 +0000 admin 149 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/167 Modes of Existence Religion Studies Viualization <p>Like other articles (43), (79), this article pursues the comparison between the religious and the scientific regimes of enunciations ; it tries in particular to explore the conditions of felicity of religious talks by distinguishing it from information ‘double click’ and shows that the link between belief and religion is a category mistake ; drawing on some of the iconograpy assembled for Iconoclash, it shows how scientific and religious images differ in the path they establish between successive images.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:34:44 +0000 admin 167 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/183 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/183" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Modes of Existence Religion Studies <p>The search for the precise caracterization of regimes of enunciation leads to an exploration of different speech-acts. Religious enunciation, in a Christian tradition at least, implies a completely different type of transfer than information transfer, and also a very different one from reference chains. The enunciation structure is exemplified by the very form of a quasi-sermon which allows one to make visible again the distinction between reference-making and person-making.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:25:56 +0000 admin 183 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/213 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/213" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Law Modes of Existence Sociology of Science <p>A comparative ethnography of fact-making in science and judgment-making in law may allow to separate again what has been mixed up in the traditional definition of matter of fact: an ability to close up the discussion and an ability to produce proofs by enticing objects to bear witness on what is said about them. There is objectivity in both but one refers to a mental attitude of indifference to the solution while the other -objectity- refers to the many intimate and even passionnate contacts with the state of affairs at hand.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:42:46 +0000 admin 213 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/252 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/252" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Digital Humanities Modes of Existence Philosophy <p>The result of a twenty five years inquiry, it offers a positive version to the question raised, only negatively, with the publication, in 1991, of ''We have never been modern'': if ''we'' have never been modern, then what have ''we'' been? From what sort of values should ''we'' inherit? In order to answer this question, a research protocol has been developed that is very different from the actor-network theory.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:19:35 +0000 admin 252 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/255 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/255" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Modes of Existence Semiotics & Literature Studies Sociology of Science Viualization Epistémologie Modes d'existence Visualisation <p>A gauche une grande savane, à droite la lisière abrupte d’une épaisse forêt. On dirait que des paysans ont créé ce partage entre deux mondes, l’un sec et vide, l’autre humide et plein, par la hache et la scie. Pourtant personne n’a jamais cultivé ces terres. Aucun cordeau n’a jamais servi à tracer la lisière qui s’étend sur des centaines de kilomètres. Si la savane sert bien de pâturages aux boeufs d’un latifundiste, elle s’arrête naturellement aux limites de la forêt que ne borne aucune barrière artificielle.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:14:08 +0000 admin 255 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/468 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/468" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Modes of Existence <p>For a philosophy that is empirical and not simply empiricist, investigation offers the only way to ferret out its concepts and then put them to the test before proposing a version that can be submitted to critique by its peers. And yet, even though investigation as a genre benefits from a distinguished and intimidating prestige in philosophy, it is fairly unusual for an author to propose to carry out an investigation with the participation of his readers.</p> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:45:26 +0000 admin 468 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr