Michael F. Zimmermann (Author)
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 45
Issue: 3
Pages: 434-451
Edition Details: Issue theme: Embracing Ambivalence and Change
Language: English
When Hans-Jörg Rheinberger proposed the concept of epistemic things, he drew inspiration from the art historian George Kubler, who had considered the aesthetic object as resulting from problem-solving processes in The Shape of Time (1962). Kubler also demonstrated that a sequence of objects could retrace the progress that led to a solution that was afterwards accepted as the most classical. Parallel to Kubler, Rheinberger demonstrates how temporally extended activities of experimentation are condensed in the object, revealing the moments of innovation that lead to it. In the history of science as well as in art history, various trajectories can thus be grasped in the materially given. Rheinberger conceives of an object as a network of heterogeneous time strings. However, these are manifold: they cannot be thought of as making up a homogeneous temporality encompassing all the others as a temporal container and synchronizing them within it. Since the discovery of the Anthropocene, we no longer separate natural from cultural time, and no hegemonic historical narrative can be taken as unifying all the others. Historical epistemology as proposed by Rheinberger will be read as a contribution to constructing new models of natural as well as of cultural time.
...MoreArticle Lara Keuck; Kärin Nickelsen (2022) Introduction: Embracing Ambivalence and Change. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 291-300).
Similar Citations
Article
Pierre-Olivier Méthot;
(2022)
An Epistemology of Scientific Practice: Positioning Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in Twentieth-Century History and Philosophy of Biology
(/isis/citation/CBB538733869/)
Chapter
Alberto Giovanni Biuso;
(2016)
Filosofia teoretica come filosofia del tempo
(/isis/citation/CBB812907389/)
Article
Lennox, James G.;
(2010)
Aristotle's Natural Science: The Many and the One
(/isis/citation/CBB001221300/)
Book
Pietro Gori;
(2018)
Ernst Mach: tra scienza e filosofia
(/isis/citation/CBB991429309/)
Article
Hanna Lucia Worliczek;
(2022)
“How Many Individuals Consider Themselves to Be Cell Biologists but Are Informed by the Journal That Their Work Is Not Cell Biology”
(/isis/citation/CBB286762573/)
Article
de Chadarevian, Soraya;
(2013)
Epistemology and History
(/isis/citation/CBB001211931/)
Article
Cornelius Borck;
(2022)
Tactile Vision, Epistemic Things and Data Visualization
(/isis/citation/CBB349465898/)
Chapter
Flavia Padovani;
(2013)
Genidentity and Topology of Time: Kurt Lewin and Hans Reichenbach
(/isis/citation/CBB383957533/)
Chapter
Giorgio Lanaro;
(2000)
Per una rilettura del rapporto tra Vailati e la filosofia italiana
(/isis/citation/CBB033506226/)
Book
Mauro De Zan;
(2000)
I mondi di Carta di Giovanni Vailati
(/isis/citation/CBB162953415/)
Book
Norbert Elias;
Bernard Lahire;
(2016)
La dynamique sociale de la conscience
(/isis/citation/CBB936368744/)
Book
Herrmann, Friedrich-Wilhelm von;
(2008)
Augustine and the Phenomenological Question of Time
(/isis/citation/CBB000951778/)
Chapter
Bruno Maiorca;
(2016)
Otto stelloncini filosofici sul "nuovo realismo"
(/isis/citation/CBB673763198/)
Chapter
Massimo Ferrari;
(2000)
Giovanni Vailati e l'epistemologia europea del primo Novecento
(/isis/citation/CBB209940157/)
Article
Thomas, Emily;
(2013)
Space, Time, and Samuel Alexander
(/isis/citation/CBB001211947/)
Article
Schmidgen, Henning;
(2013)
Between the Laboratory and the Museum: Claude Bernard and the Problem of Time
(/isis/citation/CBB001211934/)
Article
Schmidgen, Henning;
(2013)
Between the Laboratory and the Museum: Claude Bernard and the Problem of Time
(/isis/citation/CBB001252926/)
Book
Mario Castellana;
(2019)
Federigo Enriques e la “Nuova Epistemologia”
(/isis/citation/CBB605748137/)
Article
Eberhardt, Frederick;
(2011)
Reliability via Synthetic a priori: Reichenbach's Doctoral Thesis on Probability
(/isis/citation/CBB001211469/)
Article
Jacobs, Struan;
Mullins, Phil;
(2011)
Relations between Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi
(/isis/citation/CBB001024186/)
Be the first to comment!