Neu :: Simons: Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects

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“Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres’s work in the context of twentieth-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres’s philosophy, he creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres’s unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, that organizes great parts of Serres’s work into a promising philosophy of science as well as providing a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Showing how Serres’s philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, ‚Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science‘ takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.“ #Simons #Serres #science #FrenchPhilosophy

Simons, Massimiliano, Michel Serres and French philosophy of science: materiality, ecology and quasi-objects (Michel Serres and Material Futures). London: Bloomsbury Academic 2022, ISBN 978-1-350-24786-4.

Markley: Reality and Science

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“Radical critiques of science that seek to escape the constraints of deterministic dialectics must also give over narrowly conceived debates about realism and truth to investigate what kind of realities – political realities – might be engendered by a dialogical bootstrapping. Within a dialogically agitated environment, debates about reality become, in practical terms, irrelevant. ‚Reality,‘ finally, is a historical construct.” (p. 270) #Markley #science #reality

Markley, Robert, The Irrelevance of Reality: Science, Ideology and the Postmodern Universe, in: Genre 25 (1992), 249–276.

Madsen: Postmodern Science

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“A simple criterion for science to qualify as postmodern is that it be free from any dependence on the concept of objective truth.” (p. 471) #Madsen #postmodern #science #truth

Madsen, Mark/Madsen, Deborah, Structuring postmodern science, in: Science and Culture 56 (1990), 467–472.

Thom: Science

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„Toute science est avant tout l’étude d’une phénoménologie.“ (p. 5) #Thom #science #phénoménologie

Thom, René, Paraboles et catastrophes. Entretiens sur les mathématiques, la science et la philosophie réalisés par Giulio Giorello et Simona Morini. Paris: Flammarion 1983.

Serres: Histoire et science

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„Ce que les sciences humaines appellaient histoire devient science – et ce que les sciences dures nommaient sciences devient histoire. Système et Récit échangent leurs valeurs.“ (p. 40) #Serres #histoire #science #système #récit

Serres, Michel, Rameaux. Paris: Editions Le Pommier 2007. 204 S.