Weak Knowledge
Forms, Functions, and Dynamics
(Sprache: Englisch)
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Im Gegensatz zu landläufigen Vorstellungen sind wissenschaftliche Wissensbestände häufig prekäre Ressourcen. Sie können in bestimmten Situationen aus epistemischen Gründen schwach sein, weil Begründungen oder empirische Evidenz problematisch sind. In anderen Situationen fehlt die kulturelle und soziale Anerkennung oder das fragliche Wissen bleibt schwach, weil es nicht gelingt, es praktisch nutzbar zu machen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus allen historischen Epochen und aus einem breiten Spektrum von Wissensgebieten - von der Medizin bis zur Klimatologie.
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Im Gegensatz zu landläufigen Vorstellungen sind wissenschaftliche Wissensbestände häufig prekäre Ressourcen. Sie können in bestimmten Situationen aus epistemischen Gründen schwach sein, weil Begründungen oder empirische Evidenz problematisch sind. In anderen Situationen fehlt die kulturelle und soziale Anerkennung oder das fragliche Wissen bleibt schwach, weil es nicht gelingt, es praktisch nutzbar zu machen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus allen historischen Epochen und aus einem breiten Spektrum von Wissensgebieten - von der Medizin bis zur Klimatologie.
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PrefaceThe present volume collects contributions to a conference held in Frankfurt/Main on 2-4 July 2017, contributions which have been re-worked after intense exchanges both during and following the conference. They pursue a common objective: to re-evaluate and challenge historiographical conceptions of the epistemic, social, cultural and practical strength, the robustness, of scientific knowledge. Whether we look at ancient or modern, at metropolitan or peripheral knowledge, whether we consider medical or mathematical knowledge, the empirical material of all but the most superficial studies of an episode in the history of science will reveal that, in its own period, and from the perspective of those involved, the bodies of knowledge involved were often quite different in nature from what textbook epistemology tells us. Justifications of knowledge claims may have been - and often were - found to be lacking, the practical uses of the knowledge in question may have provided formidable obstacles or were entirely missing, the cultural embedding of a given body of knowledge may have been difficult, and/or the social or institutional support for it may have been less than what some actors had hoped for.While this does not come as a surprise for any serious historian of science, the question of what this observation implies for an analysis of scientific knowledge and its historical dynamics has less often been posed. What kinds of deficiencies in knowledge were articulated, when, and by whom? What is the role that such articulations of deficiencies played in the dynamics of knowledge? Were they intended as criticisms of knowledge claims that certain actors hoped to reject, or were they admissions of weaknesses by those producing and defending new bodiesof knowledge, intended to help in improving this knowledge? Questions such as these are asked by the contributors to this volume. Taken together, their contributions show that there is a wide variety of possible answers -
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depending on the particular episodes studied, and on the specific interest that the authors bring to their materials.In times of mounting criticism of scientific research on the part of political actors interested in undermining, or even denying, scientific evidence altogether, at least in certain fields such as climatology or medicine, it is important to clarify what a historical analysis of the weaknesses of knowledge advocated here does strive for, and what it does not. By discussing the wide variety of articulations of perceived weaknesses in scientific knowledge, be they epistemic, social, or practical in nature, this collection certainly does not intend to lend a hand to any formof science denialism. Quite the opposite. We hope to contribute to a better understanding of the fluidity and even fragility of scientific endeavours in the historical situations in which they are undertaken, and of the intellectual and social processes by which they are formed. Even a knowledge fraught with, and aware of, deficiencies of many kinds, may be the best guide to reasonable and responsible action in a complicated world.The contributions in this volume are grouped in four sets. The first three chapters discuss general perspectives on our topic. Moritz Epple begins by outlining a framework for a historical epistemology of weak knowledge. He is followed by an essay in which Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn sketch their understanding of weaknesses, in what they have proposed to call science research regimes in earlier work. Andy Pickering, in turn, challenges our conceptions of the role - and strength or weakness - of knowledge in action, by offering new reflections on, and examples of, what he has termed dances of agency.These reflections are followed by historical case studies. In the first group, Daryn Lehoux discusses the status of uncertain knowledge in ancient astrology, Laurence Totelin takes a look at the role of weak actors in Graeco-Roman pharmacology, and Orna Ha
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Weak Knowledge “
ContentsPreface .............................................................................................................................. 9Moritz Epple, Annette Imhausen, and Falk MüllerSchwaches Wissen ........................................................................................................ 13Hans-Jörg RheinbergerGeneral PerspectivesThe Theaetetus Problem: Some Remarks Concerninga History of Weak Knowledge ................................................................................... 19Moritz EppleScience Research Regimes: From Strength to WeaknessPolycentric Regimes ..................................................................................................... 41Anne Marcovich and Terry ShinnPoiesis in Action: Doing without Knowledge ......................................................... 61Andrew PickeringHistorical CasesOn Certain Uncertainties in Ancient Astrology ...................................................... 85Daryn LehouxA Little Old Lady Told Me: Appropriation of Weak Actors'Knowledge in Graeco-Roman Pharmacology ....................................................... 109Laurence TotelinMetaphysics and the Principles of the Demonstrative Sciences:Weak and Strong Knowledge in the Late AntiqueCommentary Tradition .............................................................................................. 125Orna HarariComment: Weak Knowledge in the History and Philosophyof Ancient Science: Trajectories of Further Studies ............................................. 143Annette ImhausenFailure and Imperfections of Artisanal Knowledge in theEarly Modern Period .................................................................................................. 163Sven DupréOn Literary Knowledge: The Conceptual, the Figurativeand the Performative .................................................................................................. 179Rivka FeldhayEconomy as if: On the Role of Fictions in Economicsin the 1920s
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.................................................................................................................. 211Monika WulzWeak and Strong Knowledge in Industrial Research:The Rise of the "Third" Physicist ............................................................................ 231Falk MüllerWeak Knowledge and the Epic Theatre of Science:Materials of the Pre-Conference Workshop .......................................................... 263Nitzana Ben David; Corinna Dziudzia, Martin Herrnstadt;Lukas Jäger; Natalie Levy, Linda Richter, and Sebastian RieboldClimate and EnvironmentA Weaker Form of Knowledge? The Case ofEnvironmental Knowledge and Regulation ........................................................... 295Dominique PestreKnowledge Production with Climate Models:On the Power of a "Weak" Type of Knowledge .................................................. 321Matthias HeymannPartisanal Knowledge: On Hayek and Hereticsin Climate Science and Discourse ............................................................................ 351Richard StaleyMedical KnowledgeThe Weak and the Strong: Medical Knowledge andAbolitionist Debates in the Late Eighteenth Century .......................................... 379Suman SethInflamed Spines and Anarchical Minds:Dynamics of Medical Testimony on Nervous Shockin the Late Nineteenth Century England .............................................................. 399José BrunnerThe Power of Weak Knowledge: Modernist Dissonancesin American Medicine ................................................................................................ 419John Harley WarnerNegotiating Epistemic Hierarchies in Biomedicine:The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine ................................................................... 449Cornelius BorckComment: Weak Medical Knowledge ..................................................................... 483Mitchell G. AshAuthors ......................................................................................................................... 489Index ............................................................................................................................. 493
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Autoren-Porträt von Weak Knowledge
Moritz Epple ist Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Annette Imhausen ist Professorin für Wissenschaftsgeschichte der vormodernen Welt am Historischen Seminar der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Falk Müller ist Privatdozent für Wissenschaftsgeschichte am Historischen Seminar der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Weak Knowledge
- 2019, 502 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 23,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Moritz Epple, Annette Imhausen, Falk Müller
- Verlag: CAMPUS VERLAG
- ISBN-10: 3593509776
- ISBN-13: 9783593509778
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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