Laboratory Epistemologies

A Hands-On Perspective

Jenny Boulboullé (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3096-6 (ISBN)

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Explores the vital role of hands-on experiences in shaping scientific knowledge in contemporary life science laboratories with an in-depth analysis of the interaction between “manual” practices in experimental research and “hands-off” theories of (scientific) knowledge formation.

In Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective, Jenny Boulboullé examines the significance of hands-on experiences in contemporary life sciences laboratories. Addressing the relationship between contemplation and manipulation in epistemology, Boulboullé combines participant observations in molecular genetics labs and microbiological cleanrooms with a longue durée study of the history and philosophy of science. She radically rereads Descartes’s key epistemological text Meditations on First Philosophy, reframing the philosopher as a hands-on knowledge maker. With this reading, Boulboullé subverts the pervasive modern conception of the disembodied knower and puts the hands-on experimenter at the heart of life sciences research. In so doing, she contributes a theoretical model for understanding how life processes on cellular and molecular levels are manually produced in today’s techno-scientific spaces. By reassessing the Cartesian legacy and arguing that epistemology should be grounded in the standpoint of a hands-on practitioner, Boulboullé offers the philosophical and historical foundation to understand and study contemporary life sciences research as multisensory embodied practices.

Jenny Boulboullé is Lecturer in the Art and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam.

Note on Descartes’s Texts and Their Translation ix
Introduction: A Feeling for the Life Sciences 1
1. Knowing by Experience 33
2. Descartes’s Manual Meditations 81
3. Making Modern Epistemology 112
4. Revisiting Laboratory Cultures 143
5. In Touch with Life 189
Epilogue 235
Acknowledgments 257
Notes 261
Bibliography 313
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	35 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3096-8 / 1478030968
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3096-6 / 9781478030966
Zustand	Neuware