Focusing on the interplay between the experimenter's hands and the artist's, this book explores the intricate relationship between science and art. It offers a deep intellectual engagement that reveals how these two fields influence and enrich one another, inviting readers to consider the creative processes that bridge scientific inquiry and artistic expression.
Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of the concept of the gene, arguing instead for more systemic perspectives. The time could not be better, therefore, for Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille's magisterial history of the concept of the gene. Though the gene has long been the central organizing theme of biology, both conceptually and as an object of study, Rheinberger and Müller-Wille conclude that we have never even had a universally accepted, stable definition of it. Rather, the concept has been in continual flux—a state that, they contend, is typical of historically important and productive scientific concepts. It is that very openness to change and manipulation, the authors argue, that made it so useful: its very mutability enabled it to be useful while the technologies and approaches used to study and theorize about it changed dramatically.
Arguing for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in the dynamics of modern molecular biology, the author develops a new epistemology of experimentation in which research is treated as a process for producing epistemic things.
This book shows how, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the philosophy of science was increasingly confronted with historical questions and how it became historicized accordingly.
Brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, one of the foremost philosophers of science.
"Esteemed historian and philosopher of science Hans-Jèorg Rheinberger explores the incredible diversity of scientific experimentation in his new book, which extends his ground-breaking epistemological studies of the life sciences and the experimental practices that have made them so productive. Rheinberger explores the materiality of experiment, of its objects and instruments, the construction of models, and myriad ways of making things visible. The first part of the book is devoted to the circumstances and conditions that give the process of experimentation its structural cachet and make it a device from which novelty can emerge. Then, in the second part, Rheinberger focuses on the relations that experimental systems develop among each other, specifically their characteristic temporal, spatial, and narrative dimensions. The concepts that guide his investigation emerge through accessible examples, most of which are drawn from molecular biology, including from the author's own laboratory notebooks from his years researching ribosomes. This is a tour de force by one of today's most influential theorists of scientific practice"--
Die fünf unter diesem Titel versammelten Arbeiten kreisen alle um das Moment des Suchens und des Unvorwegnehmbaren im Vorgang wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Ihre Entstehung überstreicht einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren. Sie vermitteln so ein Bild von der Bewegung eines Denkens, das seinen Ausgangspunkt sowohl von der Erfahrung des Labors wie auch von der Textarbeit Jacques Derridas genommen hat. Seinem Andenken ist dieses Buch auch gewidmet.
Wenn das 19. Jahrhundert in der Philosophie der Wissenschaften den Aufstieg des Positivismus erlebte, so begann das 20. Jahrhundert mit einer Krise des positivistischen Denkens, ohne dass zunächst eine Lösung oder gar Alternative in Sicht gewesen wäre. Erst allmählich entwickelte sich im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts ein komplexes, sozialhistorisch und denkhistorisch motiviertes Nachdenken über Wissenschaft, das in seinem Kern darin bestand, die Wissenschaftsphilosophie zu historisieren. Es entwickelten sich Formen einer historischen Epistemologie. Diese Bewegung muss in den breiteren Kontext der Dynamik der Wissenschaften und der sozialen und kulturellen Entwicklungen des 20. Jahrhunderts gestellt werden. In dieser Einführung werden Positionen vorgestellt, die in diesen Historisierungsprozess eingegriffen und ihn gestaltet haben.
»Augenmerk« ist der bislang umfangreichste Gedichtband des Autors Hans Jörg Rheinberger. Die neuen Gedichte bilden eine große Gelehrtenschau, die der Autor vor den Augen der Literaturliebhaber vorbeidefilieren lässt. Er beschäftigt sich dabei mit den Großen der Literatur sowie bedeutenden Wissenschaftlern und Künstlern, als da wären: Balzac, Breughel, Cassirer, Cézanne, Darwin, M. C. Escher, Horaz, Lévi-Strauss, Kleist, Majakowski, Rembrandt, Rilke, Serres, van Gogh, Robert Walser u. a.