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    Podcast

    Science Social

    Episode 10: Times of Transience with Noa Hegesh and Keith Knapp

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    Podcast

    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

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    Feature Story

    No. 85

    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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    Project

    kn/own/able

    Exploring the Unity of Knowledge and Its Ownership

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

About the Institute

News & Press

Society for the History of Technology grants Edelstein Prize for Moving Crops and the Scales of History

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Positions in research, communication, and administration

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The Kn/Own/Able Project—an initiative on knowledge and its ownership

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Events

Immanuel Kant (1724–2024): Philosopher–Scientist

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Chinese Columbianites and the China Foundation

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Methods Intensive Master Class with Deborah Harkness: "History as Writing, Writing as History"

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Methods Intensive Master Class with Deborah Harkness: "Plots, Characters, and Arguments: The Writer’s Craft" + "Attending to Audience"

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