A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...
A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.
Bruno Latour is Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and the 2013 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize.
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1. “Do You Believe in Reality?”: News from the Trenches of the Science Wars
2. Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest
3. Science’s Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot’s Scientific Intelligence
4. From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment
5. The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur?
6. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus’s Labyrinth
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1. “Do You Believe in Reality?”: News from the Trenches of the Science Wars
2. Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest
3. Science’s Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot’s Scientific Intelligence
4. From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment
5. The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur?
6. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus’s Labyrinth
7. The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles
8. A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic
9. The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes
Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora’s Hope?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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1 有用 木纹 2024-09-14 22:09:01 北京
可以说是Latour直接处理科学哲学的作品，在各章节里与科学实在论不断协商，推出了所谓的factishism。在这条主线外，第五章处理了物的历史性，涉及Latour的时间观和历史观；第六章详细阐释了转义的四种方式，曾被维贝克论证道德物化时引用。
1 有用 M 2011-02-15 04:06:47
Latour,只怪我修行不夠。
1 有用 爱大愚 2011-08-10 15:58:02
wonderful criticize and analysis of technology, I like it
2 有用 Cliché 2022-01-24 10:28:16
比Sokel的书值得译介，还没有么？
1 有用 費來德後花園 2017-01-04 11:44:59
the burden of the long history of European philosophy