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Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs
Reflections on signs and procedures of signifying had a profound impact on a wide range of early scientific practices across the globe, from medi
How Can Wisdom and Science be brought together in the Anthropocene?
MoreLassen sich Weisheit und Wissenschaft im Anthropozän verbinden?
MoreMatter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
The writings of Latin American scholastic thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century largely followed the structure of the cursus philosophicu
Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall: Knowledge of Astronomy and Divination
In the middle of the fourteenth century, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, expanded a city in Nanjing with the power of the who
Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
With the founding of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific and Technical World in Starnberg in 1970, the Max Planck Society had cre
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Validating the Animal Welfare Sciences in 20th Century Western Europe: A Scientific or a Political Practice?
Animal welfare was originally devised as a scientific tool, in order to provide rational, all-convincing arguments to animal advocacy. It is therefore
Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: Framing Governance in Germany, China, and the US
Innovations from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are widely deemed as the driving force for the next wave of social changes, industrial revo
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This project systematically examines the factors and dynamics that are driving convergence and divergence in the policy and public discourses in the t
Knowing the Shadow: The Experiential Dimension of Matter
This research project focuses on the notion of prime matter, especially in consideration of premodern discussions of matter theories in philosophy and
The Role of Mathematics in the Final Theory Program
During the course of his investigations towards a unified field theory, Albert Einstein continuously drifted to the sole application of mathematical r