Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton

Freudenthal, Gideon

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“…By the 17th century, scientific and philosophical developments were displacing earlier European views on nature. Instead of an Aristotelian harmony of things that followed their inner essence (Kurki, 2006), the universe was flattened into one fundamental reality: the force of physical motion (Freudenthal, 1986;Hadden, 1994). 'Nature was appearing, as a result of the scientific revolution, as a source of disorder' that required new political forms to be handled (Epstein, 2021: 33).…”

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Mechanical sex, science, security: Intersex medical violence, Thomas Hobbes and John Money’s invention of gender

Castro

2023

Security Dialogue

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According to a widespread contemporary medical discourse, intersex people’s well-being is threatened by their own bodily features, which must be ‘corrected’ through emergency surgical measures. Yet intersex people and activists have abundantly documented how these measures enact precisely the suffering that they were framed as countering. This article asks how the presence of such exceptionalist security logic in mundane hospital settings highlights particular intersections of security, bodies and materiality in Western modernity. It puts 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes in dialogue with 20th-century sexologist John Money, and shows how both struggled to construct social order in spite of the disorderly materiality of human bodies. Hobbes ‘invented’ a universal abstracted body, a machine in which matter is subsumed to the fiction of a social will. As science provided mechanistic understandings of sex, race and deviance, the messy materiality of concrete bodies eventually failed to substantiate a biological grounding for the sex binary. Money then ‘invented’ the concept of gender – a social category to which physiological sex is subservient, which feminists later borrowed – to justify violent interventions that physically cut that disorderly materiality out of intersex people’s bodies.

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Section: Mechanicity States and Bodies In Thomas Hobbes's Leviathanmentioning

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Mechanical sex, science, security: Intersex medical violence, Thomas Hobbes and John Money’s invention of gender

Castro

2023

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“…A distância entre a ciência e suas implicações sociais imediatas pode gerar mitologias (BARTHES, 1989) e resultar na naturalização de escolhas específicas (FOUREZ, 1995;FIORIN, 2020). Por exemplo, Hessen (1931) e Freudenthal (1986) identificaram reflexos dos contextos sociais e políticos nos "Principia" de Newton (cf. CHALMERS, 1994).…”

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Da crença ao conhecimento: repensando o papel do argumento de autoridade no ensino de ciências e na epistemologia

de Luma Capiberibe Nunes,

Pereira de Queirós

2023

Problemata: Rev. int. filos.

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O argumento de autoridade, uma das cinco formas de argumentação, é amplamente utilizado no ensino de ciências. Neste estudo, propomos uma análise crítica imanente desse tipo de argumento. Nossa investigação revelou que a formulação tradicional do argumento de autoridade pode resultar em um ensino limitador, incentivando a crença científica em vez da construção do conhecimento científico, e também pode ser um veículo para a perpetuação de uma ideologia manipuladora, como o cientificismo. Contrapondo isso, nossa análise crítica sugere procedimentos que reformulam o Argumento de Autoridade, tornando-o um meio tanto para a produção de conhecimento científico quanto para a reflexão sobre a natureza da ciência. Para alcançar nosso objetivo, rejeitamos a concepção tradicional de conhecimento como uma crença (opinião) verdadeira e justificada, e adotamos uma definição pragmática que compreende o conhecimento como crença (opinião ou hipótese) em processo de averiguação. Exigimos, especialmente, que essa averiguação obedeça a um conjunto de virtudes epistêmicas, como sincronicidade e diacronicidade, consideração da evidência total, imanência e perspectivismo (confrontação de diferentes formulações e soluções do problema), além de estabelecer interfaces com filosofias da ciência (epistemologia).

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“…As mentioned earlier, the field theoretical route to a theory of gravitation is reconstructed in extensoin Norton 1992b. 30 This has been shown in detail inFreudenthal 1986, on which also the following remarks are based.31 See the explanation of Regula III inNewton 1972Newton (1726 Compare also the sequence in which Einstein, in his Autobiographical Notes(Einstein 1992), treats the external criticism of mechanics (the critique of…”

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The Third Way to General Relativity: Einstein and Mach in Context

Renn

2007

The Genesis of General Relativity

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If I let all things disappear from the world, then, according to Newton, the Galilean inertial space remains, while according to my view, nothing is left. Albert Einstein, 9 January 1916 Space, brought to light by the corporeal object, made a physical reality by Newton, has in the last few decades swallowed ether and time and seems about to swallow also the field and the corpuscles, so that it remains as the sole medium of reality. Albert Einstein, 1930

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Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton

Cited by 45 publications

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Mechanical sex, science, security: Intersex medical violence, Thomas Hobbes and John Money’s invention of gender

Mechanical sex, science, security: Intersex medical violence, Thomas Hobbes and John Money’s invention of gender

Da crença ao conhecimento: repensando o papel do argumento de autoridade no ensino de ciências e na epistemologia

The Third Way to General Relativity: Einstein and Mach in Context

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