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Student Assistant (Dept. I) (EN/DE)
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Dept. I, Jürgen Renn) is looking to employ
One Student Assistant for the Project
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A History of Artificial Beings
This project will retell the global history of technology from ancient times to the present through our changing encounters with objects. It begins in
Rewriting the World in Southwest India
This project traces the emergence of a new way of writing natural history in Kannada in the late eleventh century and the contemporaneous production o
Kant on the Unity of Self-Consciousness in the Unity of Perception; Kant’s Theory of Moral Agency
I will be working on two projects which are not so much related to each other as to my previous work. In Kant’s Thinker, I offered a reading of Kant’s
Moral Progress
In several recent articles, I have been attempting to articulate a coherent account of concepts of progress. These articles build towards a book, curr
Herodotus Among the Moderns
Over the centuries, Herodotus’ readers have cast him as “the father of history” and “the father of lies,” as a Greek patriot and a barbarian lover, as
Forgetting Knowledge in Medieval Judaism
In studying the Jewish Tradition, historians have prevailingly been concerned with the topic of remembrance and have seen forgetting only as a misfort
Institute's Colloquium | Sep 25, 2018 | 14:00 to 15:30
Chinese Literati and Intellectuals on Mantic Arts: A Philosophy of Divination?
MoreCodes of Experimenting and Experimental Spaces around 1900
Experiments as a scientific method and epistemological activity provided the basis for a variety of scientific disciplines in Germany around 1900; at