{"product_id":"laboratory-epistemologies-a-hands-on-perspective-1","title":"Laboratory Epistemologies","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLaboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-On Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003elongue durÉe\u003c\/i\u003e study of the history and philosophy of science. She radically rereads Descartes’s key epistemological text \u003ci\u003eMeditations on First Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49809764778328,"sku":"9781478030966","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781478030966.jpg?v=1777050943","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/laboratory-epistemologies-a-hands-on-perspective-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}