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Historical Epistemology of Abstraction
What role do abstract concepts play in experience, and how are they established? These are central questions of my project, which investigates the tra
(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
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Science Social 06: Grasping the Invisible
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Science Social 06: Grasping the Invisible
MehrFrom Technocracy to Scientocracy? Science-Policy Interactions in the Chinese Local State, 1990–2020
With the beginning of the Reform and Opening Era (gaige kaifang) at the end of the 1970s, pragmatism and institutionalization began to replace tr
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This project seeks to understand the scope and nature of scientist/scholar-bureaucrat intersections and interactions in Chinese local governance, focu
Forging ahead under a Changing Sky: Meteorological Services and Crop Seed Breeding as Climate Change Adaptation in China
Anthropogenic climate change is no longer a scientific prediction but an unfolding, lived experience that is increasingly affecting people and the mor
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The project’s in-depth reading of party-state documents and domestic scientific publications allows a nuanced analysis of debates, hierarchies, and pr
The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
In the late twentieth century, culture was adopted as an epistemic object in the life, mind, and behavioral sciences where researchers sought quantita
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including the...
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