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Wednesday, November 8,
2023 12:15pm CST
(UTC-6)
International
Postdoc Forum for the
Philosophy of Science
Helene
Scott-Fordsmand
History
and Philosophy of
Science, University of
Cambridge
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Recent
philosophy of science has
seen an upsurge in the use
of qualitative methods to
anchor philosophical
debates in actual
scientific practice. This
paper argues that
ethnographic methods –
using a contextual,
immersive and embodied
approach – allow us to
gain understanding not
only of the meaning of
certain practices, but
also of their
significance, that is, how
they affect systems around
them. It then explores how
such insight may
contribute to
philosophical enquiry.
Adopting Chang’s
suggestion from integrated
history and philosophy of
science, that we may see
concrete case studies as
occasions for abstract
concept-articulation, the
paper asks what it takes
to articulate a concept
and how ethnographic
fieldwork may help in
doing so. It answers this
question by drawing
notions of articulation
from Latour and Rouse and
by providing an example
from the author’s own work
on abject object relations
in clinical medicine.
Commentator: Karen-Sue
Taussig,
Anthropology, University
of Minnesota
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