http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/taxonomy/term/56 en http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/156 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/156" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Philosophy Semiotics & Literature Studies Technology Viualization <p>Netz’s book is, without question, the most important work in science studies since Shapin &amp; Schaffer Leviathan and the Air Pump. By resorting to a very original semiotic and constructivist method, it manages to redescribe entirely the practice of deduction in the beginning of Greek geometry. It shows how this practice bears almost no connection with the various theories of abstraction and conviction that have been offered by philosophers from Plato onwards. It offers the first systematic non-formalist description of formalism at its early historical stage.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:03:32 +0000 admin 156 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/161 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/161" target="_blank">read more</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/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/185 Philosophy <p>This paper closely follows (74) on articulation and puts the notion to use in the context of a seminar on the body. After defining the body as what learns to be affected, it develops a falsification principle, opposite to that of Popper, and which is extracted from the work of the Belgian philosophers Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret. Once this principle defined, it becomes possible to avoid the usual dualism of the physiological versus the phenomenological body.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:34:26 +0000 admin 185 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/190 Philosophy Politics Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>A detailed analysis of Plato’s Gorgias allows to see how the famous debate between Might and Right has been rigged, since Socrates and Callicles agree on everything against the people of Athens. But then, once the moral red herring has been pushed aside, it is still possible to see in the dialog the traces of the conditions of felicity proper to politics and ignored by Socrates’ appeal to Reason as well as by Callicles’ appeal to Force. The Body Politic made impossible by their settlement, can be made possible again as soon as other definitions of science and politics are provided.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:21:23 +0000 admin 190 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.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/node/223 Philosophy Sociology of Science <p>The paper tries to find an intermdiary zone between metaphysics -especially that of Whitehead- and sociology or social history of science. It offers a sketchy but robust vocabulary to define the spatio-temporal envelop of phenomena, without having to take decisions on their existence or non-existence. The notion of network is then given a more precise metaphysics by pursuing how a phenomenon is then extended, through standardization and reformatting, into the classical status of existing or non-existing objetcs.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:12:00 +0000 admin 223 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/234 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/234" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Philosophy Politics Technology <p>In this series of three lectures -shortened in one long paper- is presented the philosophical, sociological and mythical account of the links between humans and non-humans; the first section explores the notion of translation in order to give activity back to objects, the second follows empirical examples of technical systems and the third offers a mythical account of how humans and techniques co-evolved. The general purpose of the article is to show that there are many ways to escape the dualist paradigm separating humans and non-humans.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:02:16 +0000 admin 234 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/241 Philosophy Technology <p>Technology is based on a strange idea of matter coming largely from epistemology, which means that instead of a thick materialism, we end up, most of the time with an idealism of matter that renders techniques fully opaque.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:11:26 +0000 admin 241 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