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Brett Yardley
Brett Yardley is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and Marquette University, currently completing a d...
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Effective Theories: Past, Present, and Beyond
Effective field theories have become increasingly popular tools in physics during the last decades. Many physicists even believe that our most fundame
Confessionalization of Medicine
This group explores the relationships between the projects and practices of Reformation broadly construed and developments in European academic medici
Knowing the Observable and the Unobservable in Islamic Thought
The question of epistemology is the foundation of any science, and “experience” or “observation” of the world around us lie at the heart of a number o
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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The History of Axioms: Mathematical Principles from Antiquity to the Modern Age
This research project aims to trace a long-term history of the axiomatic method and the axioms employed in mathematics, from Euclid’s Elements (c. 300
Accounting for Uncertainty: Prediction and Planning in Asian History
Tackling ideas of uncertainty and not-knowing has produced a variety of ways of modeling and reasoning material and intellectual cultures in Asian cul
Workshops, Accounting for Uncertainty, Preprint No. 496, Accounting for Uncertainty, Contributors, Anna Andreeva, Universität Heidelberg
Concepts as Technologies: On the Use of Concepts in Biomedical Practice
Concepts have often been described as or in analogy with technologies. Expressions such as technical term, term of art, conceptual tools, or, more rec
The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150
Imperial officials of the Song Empire (960–1279 CE) confronted a complex, monetized society. The colonization, between the ninth and eleventh centurie
Sensible Taxonomies: Medieval Accounts of Animal Perception
The theory that animals belonging to different species perceive in different but equally legitimate ways, depending on their specific vital needs, is