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Objectivity, Pt. 3: Philosophy of Science and Historiographical Empiricism
I suggested in Pt. 2 of this post that Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity fits in with themes both have been exploring over the courses of their careers, as exemplified in Daston… more →
Ether Wave Propaganda
Escape's End, or: Philosophy and the Art of Historiography Maintenance
Will Thomas wrote 2 months ago: This book makes no pretense of giving the world a new theory of the intellectual operations. Its cl … more →
Objectivity, Pt. 3: Philosophy of Science and Historiographical Empiricism
Will Thomas wrote 2 months ago: I suggested in Pt. 2 of this post that Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity fits in … more →
Objectivity, Pt. 2a: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Epistemology
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Will Thomas wrote 2 months ago: In his useful essay review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity in Isis, the phi … more →
Book Club: Objectivity, Pt. 1
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Will Thomas wrote 3 months ago: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison argue in their recent book Objectivity that “objectivity … more →
The Historiographical Idea of the Automaton-Scientist
Will Thomas wrote 3 months ago: "Go, Robot: Do Science!" For the Gallery of Practices to be productive it must be read. F … more →
Traditions of Practice: Mesoscopy, Materiality, and Intercalation
Will Thomas wrote 4 months ago: If there are no guides to the construction of the history of science: if the task is more than ident … more →
The Great Escape
Will Thomas wrote 4 months ago: Abandoning philosophy This post is meant to be the first in a series concerning the relationship bet … more →
Methodological Unity, Revisited
Will Thomas wrote 5 months ago: Buchwald and Franklin, eds., Wrong for the Right Reasons. In my recent look at historiographical lan … more →
Watch your language, Pt. 2: Galison vs. Staley
Will Thomas wrote 5 months ago: In Pt. 1, I discussed the historiographical problem of under what circumstances it is useful to crit … more →
Watch your language, Pt. 1
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Will Thomas wrote 5 months ago: Or, a notion concerning when, how, and why to nitpick historical writing. I know it must seem obsequ … more →
Whitney hosting all-star panel discussion on June 18th
Justin wrote 5 months ago: For all you well-rounded art fans out there, this upcoming panel discussion at the Whitney Museum of … more →
Projects and Problems as Elements of History
Will Thomas wrote 7 months ago: One important theme in the history of science profession is that there is a perceived need for incre … more →
Schaffer Turns to Practice
Will Thomas wrote 7 months ago: The two articles we are looking at today are among the best-known works of Simon Schaffer: (1) … more →
A Fluid Taxonomy of 20c. Sciences
Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: Will (L) and Christopher pretending to work on their web project for the benefit of the AIP's we … more →
Hump-Day History: Einstein!
Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: OK, I fess up, I’m pulling out my reserve tank of things I can write about if I haven’t … more →
Galison's Q's #10: Scientific Doubt
Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: In our last episode of Galison’s Questions, we have the issue of scientific doubt. So much goo … more →
Historical Traditions
Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: I was looking through some of the other entries in Isis‘ focus section on new directions in th … more →
Galison's Q's #9: Relentless Historicism
Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: Question #9 has got to be my favorite. I hadn’t read this over in detail before putting togeth … more →
Globality vs. Semi-Globality
Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: These are not very descriptive terms, but they make the case well enough. I think we have to admit t … more →
