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Dreams and Knowledge in Early Modern Societies
This study dealt with scientific, scholarly, and philosophical opinions about dreaming and the uses of dreams. Albert Schirrmeister led his resea
Publications, Traum und Wissen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Erste Annäherungen, in: Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 5 (2001), S. 297-310. Rationalität und Geschichte. Zum Status von geträumter Wahrnehmung in spezifischen kulturellen Kontexten der Frühen Neuzeit, in: Zugänge zur Rationalität der Zukunft, hg. v. Nicole C. Karafyllis u. Jan C. Schmidt, Stuttgart / Weimar 2002, S. 95-111
From Knowledge and Faith to Science and Religion: The Jesuit Way to Modernity
Rivka Feldhay's project was on a book manuscript about the Jesuit cultural field in early modernity. The book consisted of four sections:
The Je
Publications, “The Use and Abuse of Mathematical Entities: Galileo and the Jesuits Revisited” published in P. Machamer (ed.), A Companion to Galileo, Cambridge University Press 1998, pp. 80-146., Funding Institutions, German Israeli Foundation (GIF)
Calculated Virtues: Explanations of Altruism in Biology and Society since Darwin
Evolutionary biology is currently enjoying a period of high public prestige. At the moment, nature’s authority is being asserted over the nature of ou
Publications, “Ant Utopias and Human Dystopias around World War I,” in Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
The Sciences of the Archive
"Data" (literally, "the givens") is perhaps the most taken-for-granted word in all the sciences: short and unpretentious, it expresses the simplest an
Anthropometric Data Banks and the Making of the Dimensional Body
What does it take to create an archive of human forms and their interactions with machinery? How does the human body come into being as an engineering
A Natural History of Data
A Natural History of Data examines the history of practices and rationalities surrounding data in the natural sciences between 1800 and the present. O
Big Data and the Reconstruction of Linguistic Prehistory
In 2001, an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers joined forces to establish the Evolution of Human Languages (EHL) project at the S
Data Not Good Enough to See the Light of the Day: Shifting Boundaries Between Private and Public Experimental Data
The current era of "big data" and "data-driven science" is a result, not only of technological innovations, but also of a number of deep epistemologic
Databases and Data Communities in Animal Ecology
To generate a massive archive of data, one must often first convince a large number of scientists that they have more to gain by sharing their data th
Database of Dreams: Social Science’s Forgotten Archive of How to Be Human
This project (published 2015 by Yale University Press) tells the story of a vast yet almost entirely forgotten social scientific archive. Built in 195
Publications, Lemov, R. (2015). Database of Dreams: Social Science’s Forgotten Archive of How To Be Human. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.