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The Invention of Objectivity
MoreTranscendent Experiences: Phenomena, Ideas, and Judgements
Transcendent experiences can have a strong impact on the lives and thoughts of those experiencing them. They are understood as experiences that transc
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(Un)scientific Methods: Debating Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islam
Hannah Erlwein is currently working on her second book, with the working title (Un)scientific Methods: Debating Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Isla
Hermeneutics of the Field: The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Agriculture
This project seeks to identify a heuristic epistemology that lies between practical knowledge and theoretical explanation in early modern European agr
The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Human/Animal Division in Nineteenth-Century Russian Medical and Ethnographic Accounts
Based upon works of medical practitioners and ethnographers, the project explores the environmental imagery of animal waste and the corresponding huma
Modeled Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in the People's Republic of China
At the MPIWG, Bo An is working on his dissertation, an interdisciplinary history of computation and modeling in the People's Republic of China ov
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A central working hypothesis—widely held but rarely investigated—is that modern computing has significantly changed Chinese governance, society, and c
Terence Kleven
Terry Kleven is a Visiting Scholar from Central College, Iowa, USA, where he teaches in the Depa...
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Bo An
Bo An is a PhD Candidate in East Asian and Media Studies at Yale University. His research intere...
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Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr