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Codes of Experimenting and Experimental Spaces around 1900
Experiments as a scientific method and epistemological activity provided the basis for a variety of scientific disciplines in Germany around 1900; at
Brass Instrument Psychology: Timing—1840–1940
The term “brass instrument psychology,” a common term used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to describe laboratory psychology, sho
Virtual Laboratory Project, Essay on Titchener’s Photo Album , Funding Institutions, East Carolina University
Man-Like Apes: Chimps, Gorillas, Orangutans, and European Explorers
This project traces and analyzes British and European early attempts to make sense of great apes. Monkeys and apes, claims Donna Haraway in Primate Vi
Generating Experimental Knowledge: Experimental Systems, Concept Formation and the Pivotal Role of Error
In the past two decades, experimentation, a core procedure of modern science, has received new attention in the history and philosophy of science. Whi
Publications, Feest, Uljana. “Operationism in Psychology - What the Debate is About, What the Debate Should Be About,” in: Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, XLI 2005, No. 2, pp. 131-150., Related Digital Sources, Generating Experimental Knowledge—Online
A New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and Its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World, 750–1650
The goal of this project is to continue work on a book on the history of medieval Arabic and Latin science, co-authored with Ahmed Ragab of the Depart
Discovery and Justification: Revisiting a Precarious Distinction
Originally, the distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification was introduced to mark the difference between empirical studies of sci
Publications, Schickore, Jutta & Friedrich Steinle (eds.). Revisiting Discovery and Justification. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction, New York: Springer, 2006.
The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text, and Practice
This project investigates how early modern alchemists used images to explain unseen processes. Dynamic chemical processes, involving change at a level
Editing Le mecaniche and Reevaluating the Practical Knowledge of Renaissance Engineers
My main objective is to publish a critical edition, a French translation, and a systematic commentary of Galileo’s Le mecaniche. After confronting the
Derek Ratcliffe, Raptors, and the History of Conservation Science and Politics
Derek Ratcliffe (1929–2005) was the U.K.’s foremost conservation biologist and field naturalist in the 1960s,1970s and 1980s. He was also a prolific a
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Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
This project is an inquiry into passages between the material and the immaterial, the literal and the figurative, in the development of epistemologica