Associated with the journal Studies in History & Philosophy of the Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Studies Part C)
Joined August 2015
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12 Aug 2020
Another interesting piece in ethnobiology special issue: Daniel Weiskopf's "Representing and coordinating ethnobiological knowledge" which proposes a pluralistic, local, provisional & shallow program of knowledge coordination in contrast to other models of nature @Els_SocialScien
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11 Aug 2020
Newly published at Studies C: Violeta Furlan et al's "‘Ethnobiological equivocation’ and other misunderstandings in the interpretation of natures" bit.ly/Furlan_ethnobio_equiv… @Els_SocialScien which argues that the controlled equivocation method can be useful in ethnobiology
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10 Aug 2020
Check out the intro for the special issue on "Social borrowings and biological appropriation" by Christophe Donohue bit.ly/Donohue_intro
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10 Aug 2020
Just out from Studies C: Brian McLoone's "Population and organismal perspectives on trait origins"
bit.ly/3ksKaMPc @Els_SocialScien
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10 Aug 2020
The 'creative view' is critiqued but defended, in particular against arguments for the non-creative view, with attention to discussions about the "return of the organism" to evolutionary biology
10 Aug 2020
Issue aims to break down perceived academic and other barriers in terms of subject, historiography, geography, discipline, and methodology, particularly between the histories of the biological and the social sciences
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10 Aug 2020
Papers also seek to bridge existing lacuna e.g. between overly specialized or time period specific literature; history of science and intellectual history; and science and ideas in so-called ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ Europe
27 Jul 2020
Interesting new article by Andrea Borghini et al. "A gradient framework for wild foods" bit.ly/Borghinietal_wildfood… @Els_SocialScien
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27 Jul 2020
Beginning from a description of standard views on wild foods, authors propose what they contend is an ontologically more nuanced conception of wild foods, namely a gradient framework
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23 Jul 2020
New article out in Studies C: Elena Popa's "Mental health, normativity, and local knowledge in global perspective"
bit.ly/Popa_mentalhealth
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23 Jul 2020
Explores a value-laden framework for psychiatry using partially overlapping ontologies to help overcome the universalism-relativism clash over psychiatric categories and the causal efficacy of local approaches
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7 Jul 2020
New article from Studies C: Rubin et al., "Communication without common interest: A signaling experiment" bit.ly/Rubinetalcommunicatio…
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7 Jul 2020
Interdisciplinary exploration of the evolution of communication, showing that common interest is not necessary for communication
Authors including Hannah Rubin (ND), Justin Bruner (Arizona) @cailinmeister & Simon Huttegger (Irvine)
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3 Jul 2020
Recently published online first at Studies C: JP Gamboa's "Goltz against cerebral localization" focusing on Goltz's scientific methodology & practices, applying recent phil of science to reinterpret the localisation debate bit.ly/GamboaonGoltz @PittTweet @Els_SocialScien
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30 Jun 2020
Latest out online in Studies C: Antwerp's Steven Tresker's "A typology of clinical conditions" describes 8 categories encompassing all clinical conditions, using symptomaticity, dysfunction, & diagnostic criteria: bit.ly/TreskerTypologyClinCo… @Els_SocialScien #philmedicine
30 Jun 2020
Now out at Studies C: Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer et al, "Free-viewing as experimental system to test the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis: A case of theory-generative experimental practice"
bit.ly/GarridoetalFreeViewin… @GarridoWainer @Els_SocialScien
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30 Jun 2020
Explores a case of non-exploratory, theory-oriented research in experimental neuroscience and the construction of free-viewing as an experimental system
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30 Jun 2020
Shows there is a sui generis way in which experimental systems produce proper theoretical knowledge