Steigerwald, Joan (Author)
The question what constitutes organic life might be answered variously. This special issue explores how the rendering of life throughout the history of biology has been shaped by various instruments and media. While acknowledging the significance of the theoretical and social scenes of inquiry in which specific tools and techniques develop, and which delimit epistemic possibilities for making sense of life, the issue draws attention to material practices and instrumental mediations in experimental studies of life. Although it might seem self-evident that biology takes as its object of inquiry living organisms, it is productive to regard its subject matter as organic media rather than discrete organisms. The papers gathered in this issue show the rich potential for the critical study of how organic life has been constituted through the tools used to mediate its study.
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Tarquin Holmes;
(2017)
The wild type as concept and in experimental practice: A history of its role in classical genetics and evolutionary theory
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Weber, Bruce H.;
(2007)
Fact, Phenomenon, and Theory in the Darwinian Research Tradition
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Sara Green;
Michael R. Dietrich;
Sabina Leonelli;
Rachel A. Ankeny;
(2018)
‘Extreme’ Organisms and the Problem of Generalization: Interpreting the Krogh Principle
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Book
Holmes, Frederic L.;
Levere, Trevor H.;
(2000)
Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry
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Zammito, John H.;
(2012)
The Lenoir Thesis Revisited: Blumenbach and Kant
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James W. E. Lowe;
(2016)
Normal development and experimental embryology: Edmund Beecher Wilson and Amphioxus
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Freitas, Valeria;
Rangel, Marcio;
(2014)
The Trajectory of Chromatography in Brazil: The Case of the Gas Chromatograph
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Klein, Ursula;
(2004)
Chemical Technoscience in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Isabel Gabel;
(2018)
La biologie, la réflexivité et l’histoire: Réinscrire Canguilhem dans son milieu
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Bechtel, William;
(2010)
The Cell: Locus or Object of Inquiry?
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Evelyn Fox Keller;
(2016)
Active Matter, Then and Now
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Dalia Nassar;
(2016)
Analogical Reflection as a Source for the Science of Life: Kant and the Possibility of the Biological Sciences
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Book
Cécilia Bognon-Küss;
Charles T. Wolfe;
(2019)
Philosophy of Biology Before Biology
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Strasser, Bruno J.;
(2010)
Laboratories, Museums, and the Comparative Perspective: Alan A. Boyden's Quest for Objectivity in Serological Taxonomy, 1924--1962
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Miles MacLeod;
Nancy J. Nersessian;
(2019)
Mesoscopic modeling as a cognitive strategy for handling complex biological systems
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Schaffer, Simon;
(2001)
Modernity and Metrology
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Gayon, Jean;
(2007)
Karl Pearson ou les enjeux du phénoménalisme dans les sciences biologiques vers 1900
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Book
Susan Merrill Squier;
(2017)
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor
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David P. D. Munns;
(2021)
The age of biology: When plant physiology was in the center of American life science
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Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg;
(2008)
Intersections: Some Thoughts on Instruments and Objects in the Experimental Context of the Life Sciences
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