Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9783593509778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 620 str.

Moritz Epple; Annette Imhausen; Falk Muller

Opis

Im Gegensatz zu landläufigen Vorstellungen sind wissenschaftliche Wissensbestände häufig prekäre Ressourcen. Sie können in bestimmten Situationen aus epistemischen Gründen schwach sein, weil Begründungen oder empirische Evidenz problematisch sind. In anderen Situationen fehlt die kulturelle und soziale Anerkennung oder das fragliche Wissen bleibt schwach, weil es nicht gelingt, es praktisch nutzbar zu machen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus allen historischen Epochen und aus einem breiten Spektrum von Wissensgebieten - von der Medizin bis zur Klimatologie.

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ContentsPreface .............................................................................................................................. 9Moritz Epple, Annette Imhausen, and Falk MüllerSchwaches Wissen ........................................................................................................ 13Hans-Jörg RheinbergerGeneral PerspectivesThe Theaetetus Problem: Some Remarks Concerninga History of Weak Knowledge ................................................................................... 19Moritz EppleScience Research Regimes: From Strength to WeaknessPolycentric Regimes ..................................................................................................... 41Anne Marcovich and Terry ShinnPoiesis in Action: Doing without Knowledge ......................................................... 61Andrew PickeringHistorical CasesOn Certain Uncertainties in Ancient Astrology ...................................................... 85Daryn LehouxA Little Old Lady Told Me: Appropriation of Weak Actors'Knowledge in Graeco-Roman Pharmacology ....................................................... 109Laurence TotelinMetaphysics and the Principles of the Demonstrative Sciences:Weak and Strong Knowledge in the Late AntiqueCommentary Tradition .............................................................................................. 125Orna HarariComment: Weak Knowledge in the History and Philosophyof Ancient Science: Trajectories of Further Studies ............................................. 143Annette ImhausenFailure and Imperfections of Artisanal Knowledge in theEarly Modern Period .................................................................................................. 163Sven DupréOn Literary Knowledge: The Conceptual, the Figurativeand the Performative .................................................................................................. 179Rivka FeldhayEconomy as if: On the Role of Fictions in Economicsin the 1920s .................................................................................................................. 211Monika WulzWeak and Strong Knowledge in Industrial Research:The Rise of the "Third" Physicist ............................................................................ 231Falk MüllerWeak Knowledge and the Epic Theatre of Science:Materials of the Pre-Conference Workshop .......................................................... 263Nitzana Ben David; Corinna Dziudzia, Martin Herrnstadt;Lukas Jäger; Natalie Levy, Linda Richter, and Sebastian RieboldClimate and EnvironmentA Weaker Form of Knowledge? The Case ofEnvironmental Knowledge and Regulation ........................................................... 295Dominique PestreKnowledge Production with Climate Models:On the Power of a "Weak" Type of Knowledge .................................................. 321Matthias HeymannPartisanal Knowledge: On Hayek and Hereticsin Climate Science and Discourse ............................................................................ 351Richard StaleyMedical KnowledgeThe Weak and the Strong: Medical Knowledge andAbolitionist Debates in the Late Eighteenth Century .......................................... 379Suman SethInflamed Spines and Anarchical Minds:Dynamics of Medical Testimony on Nervous Shockin the Late Nineteenth Century England .............................................................. 399José BrunnerThe Power of Weak Knowledge: Modernist Dissonancesin American Medicine ................................................................................................ 419John Harley WarnerNegotiating Epistemic Hierarchies in Biomedicine:The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine ................................................................... 449Cornelius BorckComment: Weak Medical Knowledge ..................................................................... 483Mitchell G. AshAuthors ......................................................................................................................... 489Index ............................................................................................................................. 493

O autorze

Moritz Epple ist Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Annette Imhausen ist Professorin für Wissenschaftsgeschichte der vormodernen Welt am Historischen Seminar der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Falk Müller ist Privatdozent für Wissenschaftsgeschichte am Historischen Seminar der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.