On Historicizing Epistemology

An Essay

By:

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

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Hardback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.

Author Biography:

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube (Stanford, 1997).

Release date NZ

March 9th, 2010

Author

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by David Fernbach

Pages

128

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

3895x5830x330

ISBN-13

9780804762885

Product ID

4030545

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