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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
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung über einen Band aus dem Nachlass Louis Althussers
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on a volume from the written legacy of Louis Althusser
The Shaping of Generality in the Emergence of Enumerative Geometry (1852–1900)
At the outset of the second half of the nineteenth century, geometers belonging to the so-called “synthetic tradition” began discovering the propertie
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 Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the Geistkreis from Vienna to the New-World, 1920–1980
This project traces the story of the Viennese Geistkreis. An intellectual circle of (mainly law) students, which was gathered together by two friends—
Generations of Reason
"Generations of Reason" follows the path of reason blazed by three generations of an English family from the middle of the eighteenth to the end of th
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
Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Ideology in the Soviet Union
This project examines the conflicted history of Darwinism in Soviet Russia and the political implications of the theory of evolution for Bolshevik the
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