Rheinberger / Hans-Jorg Rheinberger / Dumit An Epistemology of the Concrete

Twentieth-Century Histories of Life
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9133-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, one of the foremost philosophers of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Rheinberger

Dumit, Joseph

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lenoir, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Säugetiere (Mammalia)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations vii

Foreword / Tim Lenoir xi

Prologue 1

Part I. Historical Epistemology

1. Ludwik Fleck, Edmond Husserl: On the Historicity of Scientific Knowledge 13

2. Gaston Bachelard: The Concept of "Phenomenotechnique" 25

3. Georges Canguilhem: Epistemological History 37

Part II. Model Organisms: Studies in the History of Heredity and Reproduction

4. Pisum: Carl Carren's Experiments on Xenia, 1896–99 51

5. Eudorina: Max Hartmann's Experiments on Biological Regulation in Protozoa, 1914–21 82

6. Ephistia: Alfred Kühn's Experimental Design for a Developmental Physiological Genetics, 1924–45 94

7. Tobacco Mosaic Virus: Virus Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes for Biochemistry and Biology, 1937–45 128

Part III. Concepts and Instruments: Studies in the History of Molecular Biology

8. The Concept of the Gene: Molecular Biological Perspectives 153

9. The Liquid Scintillation Counter: Traces of Radioactivity 170

10. The Concept of Information 203

Part IV. Epistemic Configurations

11. Intersections 217

12. Preparations 233

13. The Economy of the Scribble 244

Acknowledgments 253

Abbreviations 255

Notes 257

Bibliography 289

Index 321

Über Autor(innen)

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He is the author of On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay and Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube.