IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB900277681

Bruno Latour and the Secularization of Science (2019)

Simons, Massimiliano (Author)

Perspectives on Science
Volume: 27
Issue: 6
Pages: 925-954

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/743380

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Philosophy of science Science Nature Secularization Sociology of knowledge 21st century 20th century, late Stengers, Isabelle Serres, Michel Latour, Bruno

Several sociologists of science have mobilized secularization metaphors to describe developments in the study of science. Similar to how secularization refers to a decreasing status of religion and God as a transcendent factor in society, the secularization of science refers to an abandonment of Science as something "sacred" and Nature as transcendent. This article aims to explore these secularization metaphors, by arguing for a parallel between how sociologists and philosophers of religion differ and how similar disagreements between sociologists of science and the work of Bruno Latour exist, whose work should rather be linked with that of other philosophers, such as Michel Serres and Isabelle Stengers.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB900277681/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Thumfart, Alexander; (2013)
Rhetorische Epistemologie der Wissenschaften (/isis/citation/CBB001200975/)

Article Latour, Bruno; (April 2013)
Biography of an inquiry: On a book about modes of existence (Discussion) (/isis/citation/CBB031241284/)

Article Turner, Charles; (2015)
Travels without a Donkey: The Adventures of Bruno Latour (/isis/citation/CBB001551408/)

Article Hudson, Wayne; (2014)
Philosophy, Theology, and the Humanities (/isis/citation/CBB001201206/)

Article Heymann, Matthias; (2010)
Understanding and Misunderstanding Computer Simulation: The Case of Atmospheric and Climate Science---An Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB001024214/)

Article Henrik Thorén; Line Breian; (2016)
Stepping stone or stumbling block? Mode 2 knowledge production in sustainability science (/isis/citation/CBB657683298/)

Article Seguin, Eve; (2000)
Bloor, Latour, and the field (/isis/citation/CBB000110874/)

Article Khong, Lynnette; (2003)
Actants and Enframing: Heidegger and Latour on Technology (/isis/citation/CBB000340898/)

Article Matthew Paskins; (2020)
History of science and its utopian reconstructions (/isis/citation/CBB599954521/)

Article Sismondo, Sergio; (2012)
Fifty Years of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Twenty-Five of Science in Action (/isis/citation/CBB001250748/)

Article Mialet, Hélène; (2012)
Where Would STS Be without Latour? What Would Be Missing? (/isis/citation/CBB001250755/)

Article Turner, Stephen; (2012)
Whatever Happened to Knowledge? (/isis/citation/CBB001250758/)

Article Kochan, Jeff; (2010)
Latour's Heidegger (/isis/citation/CBB001034686/)

Article Fuller, Steve; (2012)
CSI: Kuhn and Latour (/isis/citation/CBB001250751/)

Book Rita Felski; Stephen Muecke; (2020)
Latour and the Humanities (/isis/citation/CBB627842455/)

Article Nicole C Nelson; Stefan Timmermans; Andrew Warwick; Zdeněk Konopásek; Russell E Vance; Wen-Hua Kuo; (2023)
On first reading Bruno Latour (/isis/citation/CBB631548096/)

Article Catherine Porter; (2023)
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour (/isis/citation/CBB996568243/)

Article Noortje Marres; (2023)
Seven moments with Bruno Latour (/isis/citation/CBB560504567/)

Article Carroll, Katherine; (2014)
Body Dirt or Liquid Gold? How the “Safety” of Donated Breastmilk Is Constructed for Use in Neonatal Intensive Care (/isis/citation/CBB001421180/)

Article Latour, Bruno; (2010)
Coming Out as a Philosopher (/isis/citation/CBB001034687/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}