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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger quoted in article on genome editing
Read moreInterview mit Hans-Jörg Rheinberger über Epistemische Dinge erschienen
WeiterlesenInterview with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on epistemology published
Read moreEin Artikel von Hans-Jörg Rheinberger über die Geschichte und Zukunft der Gentechnik
WeiterlesenAn article by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on the history and future of genetic engineering
Read moreDreaming, Motion, Meaning: Onieric Transport in Early Modern Europe
The history of theorizing about the meaning of dreams is an ancient one, and many of its problematics remain the same as they were for Aristotle in hi
Publications, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 1999); paperback, Spring 2004.
Fossils during the Middle Ages, 1200–1500
Present-day paleontology in its self-description refers to fossils as “documents from the archives of the Earth” (C. Cohen). By means of those natural
Calculated Virtues: Explanations of Altruism in Biology and Society since Darwin
Evolutionary biology is currently enjoying a period of high public prestige. At the moment, nature’s authority is being asserted over the nature of ou
Publications, “Ant Utopias and Human Dystopias around World War I,” in Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
The Sciences of the Archive
"Data" (literally, "the givens") is perhaps the most taken-for-granted word in all the sciences: short and unpretentious, it expresses the simplest an
A Natural History of Data
A Natural History of Data examines the history of practices and rationalities surrounding data in the natural sciences between 1800 and the present. O