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Critical Doses: Nurturing Diversity in Psychedelic Studies Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Christine Hauskeller, Claudia Gertraud Schwarz
In this introduction to the thematic issue Critical Psychedelic Studies we argue that many and diverse critical analyses of psychedelic cultures and practices are needed to counter the current hype...
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Nested hermeneutics: Mind at Large as a curated trope of psychedelic experience Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Adrian Webb
Aldous Huxley’s work The Doors of Perception introduced the phrase ‘Mind at Large’ to the lexicon of psychedelic experience in 1954. I argue that its original presentation requires re-evaluation. I...
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Coming down from the American trip Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Claudia Gertraud Schwarz
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 5, 2023)
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Passageways through process philosophy: panpsychism in practice. Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Reanne Crane
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 5, 2023)
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Psychometric brahman, psychedelic science: Walter Stace, transnational Vedanta, and the Mystical Experience Questionnaire Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Jeffrey A. Breau, Paul Gillis-Smith
The longstanding juncture between science and religion in psychedelic research is mediated most notably by the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ). The MEQ is a psychometric survey for assessin...
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Is gendered power irrelevant in higher educational institutions? Understanding the persistence of gender inequality Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Pat O’Connor
For the past 30 years, many researchers have highlighted the gendering of higher educational institutions. However, many organizations in the broadly defined Science, Technology, Engineering, and M...
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The good, the bad and the lab: a review of Nancy J. Nersessian’s Interdisciplinarity in the Making Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Emil C. Toescu, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Can fiction lead to prosocial behaviour? Exclusion, violence, empathy, and literature in early modernity Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Isabel Jaén-Portillo
ABSTRACT In this short essay, I want to address the relationship between positivity and negativity in affect theories and literary analysis by focusing on the connection between empathy and literature in early modernity, a period when affect theories emerge robustly and are articulated in treatises such as De anima et vita (1538) by Juan Luis Vives (1492–1590) or Nueva Filosofía (1587) by Oliva de
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Science, philosophy and literature in the early Spanish Enlightenment: the case of Martin Martinez Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Jorge García López
ABSTRACT Martín Martínez was born in Madrid in 1684 and died fifty years later in the Spanish capital in 1734. He was one of the introducers of medicine and modern philosophy in the Spain of Philip V (Marañón 1962, 130). He is a focus for many of the aspects that bring together scientific research with literary writing and philosophical reflection. In fact, Martinez systematically considered the usefulness
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Sherlock Holmes saving Mr. Venizelos: using science in an early Greek crime fiction novel Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Sophia Denissi
ABSTRACT Crime fiction was introduced to the Greek reading public at an early period, first through the translation of works of Émile Gaboriau (1878) and later through the works of Arthur Conan Doyle from 1905 onward. Their effect can be seen in the first Greek crime fiction novel, by an anonymous writer, serialized in 1913 in the periodical Hellas, entitled Sherlock Holmes Saving Mr. Venizelos, who
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Preface Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Humbert Massegur
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Introduction Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Carlos Gamez-Perez
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Queerness in science and literature: towards a ‘naturalization’ of the queer in the crossroads of physics, biology, and literary theory Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Benito García-Valero
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to contribute to the resignification of the queer as a valid category both in science and literary studies. It puts forward a criticism of the queer as a cultural construct and enhances its definition with evidence from the sciences of biology and quantum physics. Finally, it claims the validity of queer perspectives to understand the slippage between categories in
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Digital humanities at global scale Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, Salvador Ros Muñoz, Elena González-Blanco García, Maurizio Toscano
ABSTRACT The incorporation of the humanities into digital transformation processes resulted in the emergence of a new research field called digital humanities. This new field has its origin in the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. From the research point of view, through the analysis of the scientific production of the main academic databases, we provide here an overview of the
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Why do we engage (and keep engaging) in tragic and sad stories? Negativity bias and engagement in narratives eliciting negative feelings Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Julien Jacques Simon
ABSTRACT Our human tendency to remember more and pay more attention to negative events (rather than positive ones) may be at the core of our ‘enjoyment’ of the arts. Indeed, if we engage in sad and tragic stories, it may well be because we have a built-in propensity to be affected by situations eliciting negative emotions (i.e. a psychological phenomenon called the ‘Negativity Bias’). A good example
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‘Life built herself a myriad forms’: epics of gestation and co-operation in late nineteenth-century women’s poetry Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Wolfgang Funk
ABSTRACT This article argues for a specifically female appropriation and reshaping of the epic tradition in the wake of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Based on an analysis of Mathilde Blind’s The Ascent of Man and Louisa Sarah Bevington’s ‘Unto this Present’, it will show how this ‘female evolutionary epic’ responds to and counteracts Social Darwinist narratives of competition and struggle by emphasizing
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Wide horizons: science and epic in Mina Loy’s ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and C. Day Lewis’s From Feathers to Iron Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Michael H. Whitworth
ABSTRACT Both Mina Loy’s autobiographical poem ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and C. Day Lewis’s From Feathers to Iron are cognizant of epic without reproducing the conventions of epic narrative. In part, the epic quality of both comes from their depiction or implication of epic scales as a backdrop for human action. Unfamiliar scales were found in many sciences, with astronomy and cosmology being the
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The poetics of enquiry in Ronald Duncan’s Man Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 John Holmes
ABSTRACT In his cosmological epic Man, Ronald Duncan attempted to bridge the perceived divide between science and poetry. To do so, he had to find an aesthetically effective way to incorporate scientific data into poetry while using the form of the modernist long poem to replicate the insatiable processes of enquiry that he saw as defining science itself. Duncan’s dialogic engagement with science and
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The magic lantern as a Gothic literary instrument Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Maria Vara
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the function of the magic lantern, a seventeenth-century scientific invention with the ability to project frightening images painted on transparent slides, as a literary device intrinsically connected to the Gothic genre. Darkness, foul weather, animated portraits, eerie apparitions, crumbling abbeys and half-demolished tombs team with physics and optics in an intricate
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Immortal codes: genetics, ghosts, and Shakespeare’s sonnets Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Timothy Ryan Day
ABSTRACT This essay is built around three narratives of Shakespeare, code, and immortality: the first, the parallel between the passage of encoded genetic material in the body and the cultural transmission of text which converge in the reproduction of Shakespeare's sonnets into the medium of DNA, potentially collapsing a metaphorical relationship into a literal one; the second, the supposed conveying
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When a woman becomes a plant: looking at philosophical discourses through literary narratives Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Constantin Canavas
ABSTRACT Transcending the human perspective has always been a challenge – for philosophical as well as for literary and scientific narratives. The present study focuses on such a transcendence from humans to plants through a joint reading of a philosophical and a literary narrative in a form of interdisciplinary conversation. Instead of interpreting literature by means of philosophical commentaries
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Troubling hope Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Mark Juhan Schunemann
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 5, 2023)
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Science and literature: the importance of differences Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 George Levine
ABSTRACT The long history of the relations between science and literature reveals a constant pattern of hostility. This paper argues that there has rarely been a genuine ‘conversation’ and that attempts to reconcile the fields have largely been unsuccessful. The effort to assimilate science to literature is understandable and in certain respects appropriate, but their radical differences, particularly
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Choosing between prediction and explanation in geological engineering: lessons from psychology Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Amichai Mitelman, Beverly Yang, Davide Elmo, Yahel Giat
In their highly influential paper, Yarkoni, Tal, and Jacob Westfall. 2017. “Choosing Prediction over Explanation in Psychology: Lessons from Machine Learning.” Perspectives on Psychological Science...
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What to do about the woo? Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Andy Letcher
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 5, 2023)
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Thinking again: enaction as a resource for ‘practice as research’ in theatre and performance Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Maiya Murphy
In the context of global research culture, practitioner-researchers in theatre and performance have consistently struggled to best account for the embodied and emergent qualities of their subjects....
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Critical perspectives on science: Arguments for a richer discussion on the scientific enterprise Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Emil C. Toescu, Adam Tamas Tuboly
ABSTRACT Science, as a body of knowledge, process or an interactive network of individuals and institutions, is a central component of contemporary society. This privileged position attracts some potential dangers of over-reaching, analysed by a variety of commentators. Central to these discussions is the importance and relevance of values to the practice of science. Far from being ‘value-free’, science
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Re-imagining the virus Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Nancy Tomes
ABSTRACT This article tracks new conceptualizations of viruses both as a scientific object of study and a cultural object of fear and fascination. After World War II, the scientific study of viruses took on greater significance. The discovery of viral DNA and RNA revolutionized the understanding of microbial and human evolution. Technological innovations (electron microscopy, x-ray crystallography)
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Editorial Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Willard McCarty
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The importance of values for science Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Heather Douglas
ABSTRACT This essay examines the important roles for values in science, from deciding which research projects are worth pursuing, to shaping good methodological approaches (including ethical concerns), to assessing the sufficiency of evidence for scientific claims. I highlight the necessity of social and ethical value judgements in science, particularly for producing properly responsible research.
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Emotions in scientific practice Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Anatolii Kozlov
ABSTRACT For a long time, emotions were seen as incompatible with rationality and objectivity of science, and so were a marginal topic in the philosophy of science. This trend has changed progressively since it was determined that objectivity is much linked to social factors while rationality can’t do without emotions. As a result, emotions are now slowly finding their way into our understanding of
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Thomas Charles Buckland McLeish, 1 May 1962–27 February 2023 Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Philip Ball
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Emotions in knowledge production Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Laura Candiotto
ABSTRACT This synoptic review surveys the philosophical literature on the epistemology of emotions to identify the role of emotions in knowledge production. It analyses their evaluative, motivational, hermeneutical and social functions as embedded in epistemic practices and cultures. The focus on situated epistemic emotions stresses the importance of developing an ethics of knowledge production. The
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Clustering of cognitive biases in Walt Whitman’s ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’: An Ecocritical Analysis Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Dawid Bernard Juraszek
Walt Whitman’s ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ (CBF) (1856) conveys and constructs an exhilarated passenger’s experience with public transportation facilities of mid-nineteenth century New York against t...
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Argumentative strategies against scientism: an overview Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 René van Woudenberg
ABSTRACT This paper presents and discusses various strategies that have been wielded against scientism, roughly the claim that only science can give us knowledge. The strategies identified are: (1) the counter example strategy, (2) the denying of claimed entailments of science strategy, (3) the self-undermining strategy, (4) the presupposition strategy, and (5) the limits of science strategy. In addition
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Knowing the same things: mass examinations, credentials, and infrastructures of shared knowledge Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 James Elwick
ABSTRACT The nineteenth century was one in which millions of people acquired certificates and other credentials attesting that they knew what they claimed to know. These credentials resulted from mass examinations: systems of infrastructure that aspired to procedural objectivity. Among the key feature of these exams were the new numerical marking systems used to compare and commensurate different answers
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Correction Notice Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-04
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Seeing germs, selling germs: translating Anglo-American bacteriology Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Jacob Steere-Williams
ABSTRACT The germ theory of infectious disease, which developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is often considered a pivotal breakthrough in modern science, medicine, biology, and public health. The germ theory provided a new way to study disease in laboratory, clinical, and community settings, and a new rationale for public health intervention. This article explores two important
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The two kinds of artificial intelligence, or how not to confuse objects and subjects Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Alan F. Blackwell
Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Science communication and public trust in science Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Kristen Intemann
ABSTRACT There are many ways that trust plays a crucial role in science, both between researchers and between researchers and various communities impacted by their research. Scientific practices can operate in ways that either facilitate, or undermine, trust in science. This contribution will examine the role of science communication in facilitating (or undermining) public trust in science and science-based
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Emphasizing uncertainty, celebrating community and valuing values: science communication remedies for the COVID-19 era and beyond Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Will Mason-Wilkes
ABSTRACT Specific pieces of science communication shape publics’ more general impression of science, whether intentionally or not. This, in turn, affects how publics interact with science, acts as citizens in techno-scientific societies, and ultimately has implications for the role of science as an institution in democratic societies. Representations of science that downplay scientific uncertainty
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Public trust in science Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Maya J. Goldenberg
ABSTRACT It is widely recognized that the public benefits from well-placed trust in science. While expert advice may be wrong at times, nonexperts, on balance, benefit from following scientific experts rather than ignoring them. In short, the public needs science. Numerous professional codes such as the 2017 European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, scientific reports (e.g., American Association
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Creating meeting grounds for transdisciplinary climate research: the role of humanities and social sciences in grand challenges Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Katherine Lieberknecht, Heather Houser, Adam Rabinowitz, Suzanne A. Pierce, Lourdes Rodríguez, Fernanda Leite, Jonathan Lowell, Jennifer Nelson Gray
In this position paper, we use the example of The University of Texas at Austin’s Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) to argue that the Grand Challenge (GC) framework for ambitious research initiatives must...
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Assumptions of twentieth-century neuroscience: reductionist and computational paradigms Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 David Parker
ABSTRACT The term neuroscience originated in the early 1960s, but the questions it asks date to antiquity. The nineteenth-century reticular view of the brain as a diffuse net-like synctium was negated by the neuron doctrine, but certain aspects (e.g. glial cells) are better described as a synctium. System views of the brain were popular in the first half of the twentieth century, but a reductionist
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Facts and objectivity in science Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Philippe Stamenkovic
ABSTRACT There are various conceptions of objectivity, a characteristic of the scientific enterprise, the most fundamental being objectivity as faithfulness to facts. A brute fact, which happens independently from us, becomes a scientific fact once we take cognisance of it through the means made available to us by science. Because of the complex, reciprocal relationship between scientific facts and
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Putting scientific realism into perspective Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Rafael Ambríz González, Lisa Bortolotti
ABSTRACT In this paper, we offer a brief overview of the debate between realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of science. On the background of that debate, we consider two recently developed approaches aimed at vindicating realist intuitions while acknowledging the limitations of scientific knowledge. Perspectivalists explain disagreement in science without giving up the idea that currently accepted
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The most important thing about science is values Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Harry Collins
ABSTRACT Science is the search for truth about the observable world. But it rests on values. The only thing that can be discovered by observation is the immediate here and now. Otherwise, knowledge about the observable world is based on hearsay, spoken or recorded, about others' observations. Apart from small and fleeting observations, science rests on trust. Our scientific lives and scientific knowledge
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Scientism and scientific fundamentalism: what science can learn from mainstream religion Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Rik Peels
ABSTRACT An increasing number of scientists, philosophers, and popular science writers claim that science is the measure of all. They assert that science can answer all questions, that there are no limits to science, or that only science provides reliable knowledge, either in a particular realm, such as morality, or about any subject matter whatsoever. This view is often referred to as ‘scientism’
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Theory assessment and reality in Boltzmann’s epistemological thinking Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Marcelo B. Ribeiro, Antonio A. P. Videira
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how theories can be assessed within the epistemological viewpoint advanced by the Austrian physicist Ludwig E. Boltzmann. It builds upon, and further develops, the perspective of Boltzmann's thinking as advanced by Ribeiro and Videira [1998. “Dogmatism and Theoretical Pluralism in Modern Cosmology.” Apeiron – Studies in Infinite Nature 5 (3–4): 227–234]. Boltzmann's epistemological
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Where and how did Archimedes get in? Oblique and labyrinthine reflections Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Jens Høyrup
ABSTRACT This answer to Reviel Netz’s article at first questions his optimism concerning our technological future. After that, it suggests a different role for Archimedes and the other prominent Greek mathematicians than the one claimed by Netz: as providers not of answers but of problems which called for the transformation of the abbacus and cossist algebra tradition, thereby allowing first Viète
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History and mythography: On the role of Archimedean mathematics in the Renaissance Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Pier Daniele Napolitani
ABSTRACT This article argues that the recovery of Greek mathematics and particularly the mathematics of Archimedes in the course of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries was not the only factor that brought about the creation of modern mathematics in the course of the seventeenth. On the contrary, the work of mathematicians such as Francesco Maurolico, Luca Valerio, and Bonaventura Cavalieri, or of scientists
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Archimedes for the rest of us: Thinking commentary with Guidobaldo dal Monte Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Courtney Roby
ABSTRACT For Archimedes’ work to have furnished the ‘key theoretical tools’ for the scientific revolution, the texts must have been comprehensible to early modern readers. Yet as Archimedes’ readers and commentators have observed for centuries, his work can be very difficult going indeed. In this chapter, I explore how commentaries and other explanatory texts, like Guidobaldo dal Monte’s 1588 ‘paraphrase’
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Thirteen scholars reply to Reviel Netz’s ‘The Place of Archimedes in World History’ Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Karine Chemla
ABSTRACT This introduction to the issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews outlines the rules of the game on which all contributors agreed. Thirteen scholars have responded to a root essay written by Reviel Netz, under the title ‘The Place of Archimedes in World History.’ The introduction outlines the main lines of the arguments they put forward.
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The place of Archimedes in world history Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Reviel Netz
ABSTRACT Did science, as we know it, have to be? The article explores a possible response in the negative, organized around a specific contingency: that of Greek mathematics or, even more specifically, that of the mathematics of the generation of Archimedes. The argument is that (1) Greek mathematics, seen against a cross-cultural comparison, is an anomaly, (2) the scientific revolution, as it in fact
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Forward … to the nineteenth century: Historiographic concerns about Reviel Netz’s ‘The Place of Archimedes in World History’ Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Karine Chemla
ABSTRACT In this response I argue that Netz' essay adopts nineteenth-century theses on the history of mathematics, one of the uses of which was to highlight an alleged difference between Europe and “the others”. The debasement of certain facets of mathematical work devoted to numbers and computation has played a key role in perpetuating these theses. Such a devaluation applies notably to decimal place-value
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Winning the modernity lottery: Commentary on Reviel Netz, ‘The place of Archimedes in world history’ Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Lorraine Daston
ABSTRACT My commentary on Reviel Netz’s essay ‘The Place of Archimedes in World History’ makes three main claims: first, that the argument concerning the probability and improbability is flawed; second, that the argument nonetheless carries the ring of plausibility because of the enormity of the alleged outcome value of the improbable chain of events Netz traces, namely the origins of modernity; and
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Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science: Historical-philosophical reflections Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Rivka Feldhay
ABSTRACT The paper presents some reflections concerned with Archimedes’ legacy for the development of physico-mathematics in early modernity. First, I introduce Netz’s main themes concerned with the achievements of two generations of Greek mathematicians in their context, including some comparisons with contemporary non-Greek mathematical cultures. My paper, then, points out the necessary conditions
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The variety of readings of Archimedes in the scientific revolution: Leibniz vs. Newton Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Niccolò Guicciardini
ABSTRACT During the Scientific Revolution, the works of Archimedes played a momentous role. The geometers and natural philosophers of seventeenth-century Europe used Archimedes as a resource for tasks that varied considerably. In this paper, after some introductory remarks, I will consider and contrast the different readings of Archimedes provided by Leibniz and Newton. Leibniz's Archimedes is a precursor
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Navigating the sea of histories of mathematics Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Agathe Keller
ABSTRACT This essay argues against a history of mathematics that celebrates a unique Greek ‘outlier’ in world history, while raising the question of the new type of histories of mathematics that we should write today. Taking examples from the history of mathematical sources in Sanskrit and histories of mathematics written in South Asia, this essay deconstructs some assumptions behind narratives of
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The problems of exceptionality: The case of Archimedes and the Greeks Interdiscip. Sci. Rev. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 G.E.R. Lloyd
ABSTRACT The points at which Greek mathematics in general and Archimedes' contributions in particular are exceptional are here assessed by way of a comparison with the extensive evidence from ancient China. While underlining the need for caution concerning the extent to which concrete conclusions are possible, the outcome is broadly to confirm Netz's argument that a key factor in Archimedes' success