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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 517-523, September 2022.
Rheinberger HJ.
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Adiaphorisation and the digital nursing gaze: Liquid surveillance in long-term care. [PDF]
Abstract The nursing gaze, that is the specific ways of observing the patient in nursing practice, has been the object of ethical debates for decades. It has been argued that the specific feature of observing patients in nursing is the stereoscopic vision that allows nurses to see the patient at the same time as a subject and a body.
Rubeis G.
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Narratives of Genetic Selfhood. [PDF]
Abstract This essay considers the mid‐twentieth century adoption of genetic explanations for three biological phenomena: nutritional adaptation, antibiotic resistance, and antibody production. This occurred at the same time as the hardening of the neo‐Darwinian Synthesis in evolutionary theory. I argue that these concurrent changes reflect an ascendant
Creager ANH.
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The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis. [PDF]
Abstract Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif is increasingly salient in sociological scholarship. We identify and criticise an ‘anonymous’ emphasis in this scholarship, which often presents the dispositif as an anonymous network that acts without human agents.
Gøtzsche-Astrup J, Villadsen K.
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger as a Philosopher of Time. [PDF]
Abstract When Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger proposed the concept of epistemic things, he drew inspiration from the art historian George Kubler, who had considered the aesthetic object as resulting from problem‐solving processes in The Shape of Time (1962). Kubler also demonstrated that a sequence of objects could retrace the progress that led to a solution ...
Zimmermann MF.
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Theorizing bioarchaeology. By Pamela L. Geller, 2021. Springer, bioarchaeology and social theory series, 148 pp. ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐70702‐6. $140/$109 (hardback/e‐book) [PDF]
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 178, Issue 4, Page 678-679, August 2022.
Nilsson Stutz L.
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Abstract This article considers the notion of belonging as an always incomplete and evolving journey integral to which is the gift of otherness; a journey that consists of a continuous mutation of self, others and world. This contrasts with the more fixed notion of ‘belonging‐to’ that suggests prescribed identities affiliated to an established order ...
Dennis Atkinson
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“Changing” one's mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology
Abstract This article argues that historical epistemology offers the history of philosophy and science more than a mere tool to write the history of concepts. It does this, first of all, by rereading historical epistemology through Michel Foucault's “techniques of the self.” Second, it turns to the work of Léon Brunschvicg and Gaston Bachelard.
Massimiliano Simons
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Changes in Hungarian academic psychology after the end of “people's democracy”
Abstract The paper surveys the last 30 years of Hungarian academic psychology. Around 1989–1990, the time of the great social changes Hungarian psychology was rather Westernized, but still a relatively small scientific field and applied profession. The opening and liberalization of politics made psychology in Hungary a booming profession and a rich ...
Csaba Pléh
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Abstract Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot all studied at Oxford University during the Second World War. One of their wartime tutors was Donald MacKinnon. This paper gives a broad overview of MacKinnon's philosophical outlook as it was developing at this time. Four talks from between 1938 and 1941—‘And the Son of Man That
Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
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