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On historicizing epistemology : an essay

By David Fernbach , Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0804762880, 978-0-8047-6288-5, 978-0-8047-6289-2, 0804762899, 9780804774208, 080477420X
Language
englishgerman
Format
PDF
Filesize
551 kB (564562 bytes)
Series
Cultural memory in the present
Pages
114\128
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
KnowledgeTheory of -- History. Science -- Philosophy -- His

Description

Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.

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