Weak Knowledge

Forms, Functions, and Dynamics

Moritz Epple, Annette Imhausen, Falk Müller

• Publisher: Campus Verlag
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783593440293
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

Im Gegensatz zu landläufigen Vorstellungen sind wissenschaftliche Wissensbestände häufig prekäre Ressourcen. Sie können in bestimmten Situationen aus epistemischen Gründen schwach sein, weil Begründungen oder empirische Evidenz problematisch sind. In anderen Situationen fehlt die kulturelle und soziale Anerkennung oder das fragliche Wissen bleibt schwach, weil es nicht gelingt, es praktisch nutzbar zu machen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus allen historischen Epochen und aus einem breiten Spektrum von Wissensgebieten - von der Medizin bis zur Klimatologie.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Schwaches Wissen I - Erdrauch - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
• Schwaches Wissen II - Der unsichtbare Begleiter - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
• General Perspectives
• The Theaetetus Problem: Some Remarks Concerning a History of WeakKnowledge - Moritz Epple
• Science Research Regimes:From Strength to Weakness –The Polycentric RegimeAnne Marcovich and Terry Shinn
• Poiesis in Action: Doing without Knowledge- Andrew Pickering
• Historical Cases
• On Certain Uncertainties in Ancient Astrology - Daryn Lehoux
• A Little Old Lady Told Me: Appropriation of Weak Actors’ Knowledge in Graeco-Roman Pharmacology - Laurence Totelin
• Metaphysics and the Principles of the Demonstrative Sciences: Weak and Strong Knowledge in the Late-Antique Commentary Tradition - Orna Harari
• Comment: Weak Knowledge in the Historyand Philosophy of Ancient Science: Trajectories of Further Studies - Annette Imhausen
• Failure and the Imperfections of Artisanal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period - Sven Dupré
• On Literary Knowledge: The Conceptual, the Figurative and the Performative - Rivka Feldhay
• Economy as if: On the Role of Fictions in Economics in the 1920s - Monika Wulz
• Weak and Strong Knowledge in Industrial Research: The Rise of the “Third” Physicist - Falk Müller
• Weak Knowledge and the Epic Theatre of Science: Papers of the Pre-Conference Workshop Nitzana Ben David, Corinna Dziudzia, Martin Herrnstadt, Lukas Jäger Natalie Levy, Linda Richter, and Sebastian Riebold
• Climate and Environment
• A Weaker Form of Knowledge? The Case of Environmental Knowledge and Regulation - Dominique Pestre
• Knowledge Production with Climate Models :On the Power of a “Weak” Type of Knowledge - Matthias Heymann
• Partisanal Knowledge: On Hayek and Heretics in Climate Science and Discourse - Richard Staley
• Medical Knowledge
• The Weak and the Strong: Medical Knowledge and Abolitionist Debatesin the Late Eighteenth Century - Suman Seth
• Inflamed Spines and Anarchical Minds: Dynamics of Medical Testimony on Nervous Shock in Late Nineteenth Century England - José Brunner
• The Power of Weak Knowledge: Modernist Dissonances in American Medicine - John Harley Warner
• Negotiating Epistemic Hierarchies in Biomedicine: The Rise of Evidence-based Medicine - Cornelius Borck
• Weak Knowledge in Medicine: A Comment - Mitchell G. Ash
• Authors
• Index