Mat Paskins
Mat Paskins
Between the 1870s and the 1920s, the dye industry was at the center of claims about the productivity of organic chemistry. Dyestuffs were widely represented as the most complex molecules to find commercial application, and positioned at the...
Theodore Arabatzis
Theodore Arabatzis
The aim of this article is to make a case for the pertinence of a biographical approach to the history of scientific objects. I first lay out the rationale of that approach by revisiting and extending my earlier work on the topic. I conside...
Using one's talents in honor of God: Lambert ten Kate (1674-1731) and Isaac Newton's natural philosophy [0.03%]
发挥天赋荣耀上帝：兰伯特·凯特（1674-1731）与牛顿的自然哲学
Steffen Ducheyne
Steffen Ducheyne
Lambert ten Kate (1674-1731), the scholar of language, religious writer, art theoretician and collector, and natural philosophy enthusiast, was part of an informal network of Amsterdam-based mathematics and natural philosophy enthusiasts wh...
An infrastructural account of scientific objectivity for legal contexts and bloodstain pattern analysis [0.03%]
适用于法律情境的科学客观性的基础设施账户及血痕图案分析
W John Koolage,Lauren M Williams,Morgen L Barroso
W John Koolage
In the United States, scientific knowledge is brought before the courts by way of testimony - the testimony of scientific experts. We argue that this expertise is best understood first as related to the quality of the underlying science and...
Towards a new philosophical perspective on Hermann Weyl's turn to intuitionism [0.03%]
论赫尔曼·外尔转向直觉主义的新哲学视角
Kati Kish Bar-On
Kati Kish Bar-On
The paper explores Hermann Weyl's turn to intuitionism through a philosophical prism of normative framework transitions. It focuses on three central themes that occupied Weyl's thought: the notion of the continuum, logical existence, and th...
Jeff Kochan
Jeff Kochan
Historians have claimed that the two closely related concepts of animism and natural teleology were both decisively rejected in the Scientific Revolution. They tout Robert Boyle as an early modern warden against pre-modern animism. Discussi...
Representing vulnerable populations in genetic studies: The case of the Roma [0.03%]
基因研究中罗姆人族裔的脆弱性及权利保护——从代表性不足的群体出发审视遗传学中的伦理问题
Veronika Lipphardt,Gudrun A Rappold,Mihai Surdu
Veronika Lipphardt
Moreau () has raised concerns about the use of DNA data obtained from vulnerable populations, such as the Uighurs in China. We discuss another case, situated in Europe and with a research history dating back 100 years: genetic investigation...
"Please, come in." Being a charlatan, or the question of trustworthy knowledge [0.03%]
“请进”。做一个江湖郎中，或者可信知识的问题
Irina Podgorny,Daniel Gethmann
Irina Podgorny
The "Controversial Cundurango Cure": Medical professionalization and the global circulation of drugs [0.03%]
“极具争议的昆杜朗戈疗法”：医学职业化与药物的全球流通
Elisa Sevilla,Ana Sevilla
Elisa Sevilla
This article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial medicinal bark from Ecuador - cundurango - that was actively sponsored by the Ecuadorian government as a new botanical cure for cancer in the late ninetee...
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia,Lorenzo Leporiere
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918) is remembered as one of the most famous mediums in the history of spiritualism. Renowned scientists attended her séances in Europe and in the United States. They often had to admit to being unable to understan...