This is a book about applied metaphysics.
An edition of Biographies of Scientific Objects
(2000)
Biographies of scientific objects
by Lorraine Daston
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Biographies of Scientific Objects
June 15, 2000, University Of Chicago Press
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Biographies of Scientific Objects
June 15, 2000, University Of Chicago Press
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in English
0226136701 9780226136707
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Biographies of scientific objects
2000, University of Chicago Press, University Of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
The coming into being of scientific objects / Lorraine Daston
Preternatural philosophy / Lorraine Daston
Mathematical entities in scientific discourse: Paulus Guldin and his Dissertatio de motu terrae / Rivka Feldhay
Dreams and self-consciousness: mapping the mind in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Doris Kaufmann
Mutations of the self in old regime and postrevolutionary France: from ame to moi to le moi / Jan Goldstein
The coming into being and passing away of value theories in economics (1776-1976) / Gérard Jorland
"An entirely new object of consciousness, of volition, of thought": the coming into being and (almost) passing away of "society" as a scientific object / Peter Wagner
"Sentimental pessimism" and ethnographic experience: or, why culture is not a disappearing "object" / Marshall Sahlins
How the ether spawned the microworld / Jed Z. Buchwald
Life insurance, medical testing, and the management of mortality / Theodore M. Porter
On the partial existence of existing and nonexisting objects / Bruno Latour
Cytoplasmic particles: the trajectory of a scientific object / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
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