Political Epistemology
Introduces a new field of investigation in Science Studies Opens up a novel political approach to epistemology Complements historical epistemology with political theory
| Autor: | Omodeo, Pietro Daniel |
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| ISBN: | 9783030231224 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 155 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 24.10.2020 |
| Untertitel: | The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies |
| Schlagworte: | Historical Epistemology Political Epistemology Political Philosophy of Science Science Studies Science and Politics Science and Power meta-reflection on science political dimensions of science political theory struggles for hegemony |
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). He is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research endeavor “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe” (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). Together with Jürgen Renn he authored the book Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585) (2019). His forthcoming books include the co-edited volume Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World: Gramscian Concepts for the History of Science (with Massimiliano Badino) and Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science (with Rodolfo Garau).