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Constructivism for Philosophers (Be it a Remark on Realism)
Published 2003-01-01Bereft of the illusion of an epistemic vantage point external to science, what should be our commitment towards the categories, concepts and terms of that very science? Should we, despaired of the possibility to found these ...Open AccessArticle -
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science
Published 2010-01-01It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated ...Open AccessBook -
Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye
Published 2010-01-01On receiving news of Galileo’s observations of the four satellites of Jupiter and the rugged face of the moon through his newly invented perspicillum, Kepler in great excitement exclaimed: Therefore let Galileo take his ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt
Published 2010-04-01In the seventeenth century the human observer gradually disappeared from optical treatises. It was a paradoxical process: the naturalization of the eye estranged the mind from its objects. Turned into a material optical ...Open AccessArticle -
The 'absolute existence' of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view.
Published 2011-01-01Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its ‘absolute existence’. We demonstrate that ...Open AccessArticle -
The Return of Vitalism:
Published 2011-03-04The eminent French biologist and historian of biology, François Jacob, once notoriously declared "On n‘interroge plus la vie dans les laboratoires": laboratory research no longer inquires into the notion of Life‘. Nowadays, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Remaining Human in COVID-19: Dialogues on Psychogeography
Published 2021Post-COVID-19 environments have challenged our embodied identities with these challenges coming from a variety of domains, that is, microbiological, semiotic, and digital. We are embedded in a new complex set of relations, ...Article -
Llara subsoil constraint prediction dataset
Published 2021-04-14This dataset holds covariate data that was used for predicting subsoil constraints across the University of Sydney farm "Llara", Narrabri, NSW Australia. It includes terrain attributes, gamma radiometrics from an aerial ...Open AccessDataset -
‘The border problems of science and philosophy’: Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider and post-World War 2 science in Australian academia and society
Published 2022Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1891–1990), a refugee immigrant to Australia in 1938, was a student of Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Einstein, Planck, and von Laue. She combined a background in physics, especially relativity ...Open AccessArticle