{"product_id":"who-is-the-scientist-subject-1","title":"Who is the Scientist-Subject?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self – that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined, self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by social and scientific ethos – in favour of a narrative that shows how the microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted, questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the scientist-subject. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author covers a century-long history of the concept of the gene as a series of \"pioneering moments\" through an engagement with life-writings of eminent scientists to show how their ways of being and belonging relate with the making of the science. The scientist-self is theorized as fundamentally a feeling, experiencing, and suffering subject split between the conscious and unconscious and constitutive of personality aspects that are emotional\/psychological, \"situated\" (cultural and ideological), metaphysical, intersubjective, and existential at the same time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging interdisciplinary interpretation of the dominance of reductionism in genetic science, this book will be of major interest to scholars and researchers of science, history, and philosophy alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256782508376,"sku":"9781138570337","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138570337.jpg?v=1769819431","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/who-is-the-scientist-subject-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}