What (Good) is Historical Epistemology? Editors’ Introduction

Feest, Uljana; Sturm, Thomas

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“…Over the past few years HE has been used as a label for a wide variety of programs (for an overview see Feest and Sturm 2011). In addition to Daston and Galison, who characterized epistemological categories out of knowledge practices, another practitioner of HE, Arnold Davidson, conducted investigations into the conceptual formation of new disciplines and mentioned historical epistemology in relation to a kind of study that attempts to show how novel forms of experience are linked to the emergence of new structures of knowledge (Davidson 2001, p. XIII).…”

Section: Historical Epistemology Versus Traditional Epistemologymentioning

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On Ian Hacking’s Notion of Style of Reasoning

Sciortino

2016

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The analytical notion of 'scientific style of reasoning', introduced by Ian Hacking in the middle of the 1980s, has become widespread in the literature of the history and philosophy of science. However, scholars have rarely made explicit the philosophical assumptions and the research objectives underlying the notion of style: what are its philosophical roots? How does the notion of style fit into the area of research of historical epistemology? What does a comparison between the Hacking's project on styles of thinking and other similar projects suggest? My aim in this paper is to answer these questions. Hacking has denied that his project of styles of thinking falls into the field of historical epistemology. I shall challenge his remark by tracing out the connections of the notion of style with historical epistemology and, more in general, with a tradition of thought born in France in the beginning of twentieth-century.

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Section: Historical Epistemology Versus Traditional Epistemologymentioning

confidence: 99%

On Ian Hacking’s Notion of Style of Reasoning

Sciortino

2016

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“…This approach has a quasiKantian flavor to it. It studies the preconditions that make a new concept possible, while understanding those preconditions in terms of historical, contextual practices (Daston 1994;Feest and Sturm 2011). In adopting this approach, D&G reject the idea that epistemic concepts have a timeless and monolithic nature that can be studied by means of conceptual analysis.…”

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Objectivity, Historicity, Taxonomy

Witteveen

2017

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In Objectivity (2007), Daston and Galison argue that scientific objectivity has a history. Objectivity emerged as a distinct nineteenth-century ''epistemic virtue,'' flanked in time by other epistemic virtues. The authors trace the origins of scientific objectivity by identifying changes in images from scientific atlases from different periods, but they emphasize that the same history could be narrated using different sorts of scientific objects. One could, for example, focus on the changing uses of ''type specimens'' in biological taxonomy. Daston (Crit Inq 31(1): 2004) indeed provides a detailed account of the history of the type specimen which purports to show this. I argue that this attempt hinges on a conceptual confusion and therefore fails. I show that the actual history of the type specimen does not reinforce the account of epistemic virtues from Objectivity, but rather threatens to subvert it.

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“…Sociologists of scientific knowledge, social constructivists and philosophers of science in the 1980s and 90s turned their attention to a range of questions relating to the resolution of scientific controversies, the making of scientific discoveries, and the construction or establishment of scientific facts. Such questions concerning the production of knowledge have also been an important stimulus for the revitalization of the integrated approaches to the history and philosophy of science as well as the renewed interest in historical epistemology (Feest & Sturm, 2011). …”

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The Shaping of Inquiry: Histories of the Exact Sciences after the Practical Turn

Camilleri¹

2015

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In this paper I examine three emergent trends in praxis-oriented historiography that have underpinned historical studies of the exact sciences covering the period from 1750 to 1960. The first of these refers to what I call "tradition-centred" histories of scientific practice. This approach focuses on the formation of "cultures of practice" characterized by distinctive epistemic styles, which distinguish them from other such cultures. The second involves "tool-centred" histories of practice. This approach focuses on the way in which tools and techniques of inquiry open up new fields of inquiry, and the way in which the crafting of new tools and the refashioning of existing ones shape the dynamics of scientific practice. The third approach I examine relates to "actor-centred" histories, which typically take the form of biographical accounts focusing on the motivations, judgments and choices of individuals that shape scientific inquiry. This provide a useful analytic framework, in piecing together a broad picture of the different ways in which scientific inquiry is shaped and structured, and to see more clearly how different historiographical approaches complement one another in enriching our understanding of scientific practice.

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What (Good) is Historical Epistemology? Editors’ Introduction

Cited by 52 publications

References 32 publications

On Ian Hacking’s Notion of Style of Reasoning

On Ian Hacking’s Notion of Style of Reasoning

Objectivity, Historicity, Taxonomy

The Shaping of Inquiry: Histories of the Exact Sciences after the Practical Turn

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