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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny BoulboulléPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9781478026754ISBN 10: 1478026758 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 15 November 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNote on Descartes’s Texts and Their Translation ix Introduction: A Feeling for the Life Sciences 1 1. Knowing by Experience 33 2. Descartes’s Manual Meditations 81 3. Making Modern Epistemology 112 4. Revisiting Laboratory Cultures 143 5. In Touch with Life 189 Epilogue 235 Acknowledgments 257 Notes 261 Bibliography 313 IndexReviews"""Jennifer Boulboullé brilliantly revises superficial clichés about Descartes as foundational to French rationality opposed to British practicality, dualism of subject versus object, cogito as purely in the mind, skepticism as his primary method. An experimentalist and vivisectionist, Descartes was prouder of his experiments than his philosophy, and with his correspondents helped devise the ‘literary technology’ that led to the scientific method of the Royal Society. Boulboullé argues that Laboratory Epistemologies begin in touch and the sensory followed by cogito-mathematical consolidations that often erase their empirical origins, and for Descartes required a theological overlay."" -- Michael M. J. Fischer, author of * Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life *" """Jenny Boulboullé brilliantly revises superficial clichés about Descartes as foundational to French rationality opposed to British practicality, dualism of subject versus object, cogito as purely in the mind, skepticism as his primary method. An experimentalist and vivisectionist, Descartes was prouder of his experiments than his philosophy, and with his correspondents helped devise the ‘literary technology’ that led to the scientific method of the Royal Society. Boulboullé argues that Laboratory Epistemologies begin in touch and the sensory followed by cogito-mathematical consolidations that often erase their empirical origins, and for Descartes required a theological overlay."" -- Michael M. J. Fischer, author of * Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life * “Jenny Boulboullé calls her study a ‘multi-sited historio-ethnographical investigation,’ thus condensing its spirit in one combined expression. The book brings together an impressively wide reading in contemporary historical and ethnographical science studies, a longue dureée philosophical perspective, and hands-on participatory experiences both in molecular biology and in the aesthetic practices of contemporary bio-artists. A highly original study of scientific practice that makes for fascinating reading.” -- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, author of * Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation *" Author InformationJenny Boulboullé is Lecturer in the Art and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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