Abstract

GARCIA-SANCHO, Miguel; GONZALEZ-SILVA, Matiana  and  SANTESMASES, María Jesús. Shaping biomedical objects across history and philosophy: a conversation with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Dynamis [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.1, pp.193-209. ISSN 2340-7948.

Historical epistemology, according to the historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, is a space through which "to take experimental laboratory work into the realm of philosophy". This key concept, together with the crucial events and challenges of his career, were discussed in a public conversation which took place on the occasion of Rheinberger's retirement. By making sense of natural phenomena in the laboratory, the act of experimenting shapes the object; it is this shaping which became the core of Rheinberger's own research across biology and philosophy into history. For his intellectual agenda, a history of the life sciences so constructed became "epistemologically demanding".

Keywords : Hans-Jörg Rheinberger; historiography of science; cultural history.

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