http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/taxonomy/term/40 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/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/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/node/257 History of Science Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>A semiotic study of one article by Pasteur in order to elicit from the text the many philosophies and sociologies of science mobilized in the narration. Semiotics is used to show how non-humans can be analyzed in details and how the text as event can then be connected to historical explanations.<br /> A more complete analysis in a draft form, is accessible <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/downloads/SUMMER%20SCHOOL-LACTIC-ACID-GB.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:23:19 +0000 admin 257 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/293 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/293" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Anthropology History of Science Viualization <p>It would be nice to be able to define what is specific to our modem scientific culture. It would be still nicer to find the most economical explanation (which might not be the most economic one) of its origins and special characteristics. To arrive at a parsimonious explanation it is best not to appeal to universal traits of nature.</p> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:11:52 +0000 admin 293 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.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/node/750 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/750" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Design Ecology & Political Ecology History of Science Viualization <p>Foregrounding the importance of soil and more generally the surface of the Earth —what is now often called the Critical Zone (CZ)— remains very difficult as long as the usual planetary view, familiar since the scientific revolution, is maintained. In this joint effort between a landscape architect, a historian of science and a geochemist, we offer an anamorphosis which allows to shift from a planetary vision of places located in the geographic grid, to a representation of events located in what we call a Gaia-graphic view.</p> Fri, 08 Dec 2017 08:10:01 +0000 admin 750 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/755 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/755" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology History of Science Viualization <p>Foregrounding the importance of soil and more generally the surface of the Earth —what is now often called the Critical Zone (CZ)— remains very difficult as long as the usual planetary view, familiar since the scientific revolution, is maintained. In this joint effort , we offer an alternative visualizations which allows to shift from a planetary vision of places located in the geographic grid, to a representation of events located in what we call a Gaiagraphic view.</p> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:41:55 +0000 admin 755 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/757 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/757" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology History of Science Politics <p>In this paper, two specialists of Gaia theory, one from the humanities and the other from Earth System Science (Exeter University), make a sustained effort to list the misunderstandings created by those who have either rejected or accepted Gaia too readily. They argue that the uniqueness of the phenomenon and of the arguments made by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, has been under-recognized. Neither mechanical nor organismic metaphors can render justice to the originality of Gaia.</p> Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:40:48 +0000 admin 757 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/823 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/823" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology History of Science Politics Technology Viualization <p>— “Landing on Earth? Why would anyone attempt to land there? Are we not already on Earth?”<br /> Well, not quite! And that’s the circumstance this book tries to present to the inquiring reader: it seems that there has been in the past some misinterpretation over what it means to be earthly. If you believe it means “practical”, “mundane”, “secular”, “material” or even “materialist”, you’re in for a surprise.</p> Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:25:36 +0000 admin 823 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr