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Projects

Current & Completed

The Institute’s research projects span all eras of human history, as well as all cultures north, south, east, and west. The Institute’s projects canvass an array of scientific areas, ranging from the origins of continuity systems in Mesopotamia to present-day neuroscience, Renaissance natural history, and the origins of quantum mechanics.

The Institute's researchers explore the changing meaning of fundamental scientific concepts (for example number, force, heredity, space) as well as how cultural developments shape fundamental scientific practices (for example argument, proof, experiment, classification). They examine how bodies of knowledge originally devised to address specific local problems became universalized.

The work of the Institute's scholars forms the basis of a theoretically oriented history of science which considers scientific thinking from a variety of methodological and interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute draws on the reflective potential of the history of science to address current challenges in scientific scholarship.

Project List

Futility and Transcendence in Kant’s Philosophy
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Generating Experimental Knowledge
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Generations of Reason
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Geological Knowledge in the Making of Modern Northeast Asia
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German Scientists and the Latin Americas
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Good Science: Epistemic Values and Scholarly Reputations in Europe, 1770–1830
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Heuristical Strategies: In Pursuit of Quasars
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Toward a Metaphysics of Music Theory
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Judgments of Similarity and Idealizations in Geodesy
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Kant on Self-Consciousness and Theory of Moral Agency
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Kepler/Copernicus
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The Experiential Dimension of Matter
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Milton Babbitt and the RCA Synthesizer
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Lunar Diagrams in Byzantine and Slavonic Manuscripts
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Machines That Can Talk? Animals in Historic Discourse
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Scholastic Natural Science in Colonial Chile and Ecuador
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Meat, Cattle and a Capital City
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Medical Epistemology in Renaissance Italy
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Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
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Moral Progress
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Music and Transience in the Six Dynasties
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Late Medieval Concepts of Sound and Listening
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Ge Hong’s Rejection of Timeless Utopianism
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Ownership of Knowledge
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Performing Brains on Screen
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Quantum Correlations and Joint Causes
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Regularity Theory of Causation
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Medieval Accounts of Animal Perception
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A History of the City in China, 800–1150
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Beldomandi and Vespucci on Sacrobosco’s Sphaera
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