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anatomical experiments
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Descartes
Descartes' Meditations
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Epistemological pluralism
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experimental empiricism
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Laboratory ethnograpy
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Product details
- ISBN 9781478030966
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
