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Seminar | Mar 20, 2023 | 11:00 to 13:00
Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique
MoreMaking Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
In the wake of the nineteenth-century invention of photography, the historical semantics of "exposure" broadened to include exposing a sensitized surf
The Forgotten History of Intercropping: On the Marginalization of Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Intercropping—the practice of growing mixtures of crops in a single field, in contrast with the “pure stands” typical of industrial agriculture—has lo
An Imagined Human Body: A Study of Chinese Medical Manuscripts
The focus of this project is on how medical knowledge was produced through practice. In particular, how medical imagination grew locally and changed t
Measuring a Patient: Psychometric and Clinimetric Validation Practices and the Emergence of Idiographic Indexes, 1970s–2000s
In the decades approaching the twenty-first century, “clinimetrics” was a way to describe a methodological approach to measuring patients that, while
Kann man Wissen enteignen, Dagmar Schäfer?
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MoreThe “Cosmic Board” and the Visuality of Early and Medieval Chinese Cosmology
By focusing on reinterpreting the astronomical and divinatory device often known as the “cosmic board” or shi pan, this project aims to shed new light
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property
Organizing knowledge always involves the question of who has the right to say what kind of information is (or should remain) scientific, universal, lo
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The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
In the late twentieth century, culture was adopted as an epistemic object in the life, mind, and behavioral sciences where researchers sought quantita