Federico Brandmayr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 186856 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Federico Brandmayr |
| NOMBRES | Federico |
| APELLIDO | Brandmayr |
| FIRMA | BRANDMAYR F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9180-5351 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Disciplinary identity and the idea of a unified social science
The left and the right in the ethnographic imagination
Roots of Distrust
This article examines the wave of resistance to science-based containment measures during the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Salento, Italy, an ongoing plant epidemic that has severely affected olive trees since the early 2010s. It challenges two dominant frameworks for interpreting anti-expert mobilizations: one focusing on the populist glorification of common sense and the illusion of understanding fostered by easy access to information; the ot…
From disappointment to audience switch
A Stranger in His Own Field? Bellah’s Radical Critique of Science
Social science as apologia
The social sciences are predominantly seen by their practitioners as critical endeavours, which should inform criticism of harmful institutions, beliefs and practices. Accordingly, political attacks on the social sciences are often interpreted as revealing an unwillingness to accept criticism and an acquiescence with the status quo. But this dominant view of the political implications of social scientific knowledge misses the fact that people can…
Explanations and excuses in French sociology
The terrorist attacks that struck France in 2015 had reverberations throughout the country's intellectual fields. Among the most significant was a widespread polemic that turned around whether sociological explanations of the attacks amounted to excuses and justifications for terrorists. When prominent politicians and pundits made allegations of this nature, sociologists reacted in three main ways: most denied the allegations, others reappropriat…
Are Theories Politically Flexible
Social theories are politically flexible if people use them to support opposite political claims. But is this even possible? And what kind of theories have such a property? Moving beyond epistemological debates about neutrality and value-leadenness, this article defends an empirical approach to the study of flexible and rigid political uses of social theories. I identify two main sources of flexibility: endogenous properties of theories, notably …
When Boundary Organisations Fail
Notwithstanding the alleged crisis of expertise, scientists increasingly act as expert advisors to governments, while organisations at the boundary between science and policy multiply. Experts in such contexts are often subject to contradictory injunctions, associated with the role of either scientist or public official. Role conflict is particularly intense when decisions informed by scientific advice have negative consequences. In these situati…
Public Epistemologies and Intellectual Interventions in Contemporary Italy
Building on recent work in the sociology of intellectual interventions, the study of cultural boundaries of science, and the role of ideas in politics, the article develops a theory of public epistemologies as argumentative tools people use to support or oppose political positions. Two prominent public epistemologies that have recently crystallized in Italian politics are taken as illustrations, with special attention paid to the role of two acad…
How Social Scientists Make Causal Claims in Court
This paper contributes to two topics that have received insufficient attention in science and technology studies: the social dimensions of causal reasoning and how the knowledge-making site of expert testimony affects the production and reception of social scientific knowledge. It deals with how social scientists make causal claims when testifying as expert witnesses in trials where causal claims are relevant, using as a case study the so-called …
Jean-Jacques Delfour, La Condition nucléaire. Réflexions sur la situation atomique de l’humanité
Jean-Jacques Delfour, agrégé de philosophie et auteur notamment de Télé, bagnole et autres prothèses, se livre dans cet ouvrage à une tâche hardie : porter un regard philosophique sur les technologies nucléaires et dévoiler leurs implications sur la vie humaine, en s’inspirant pour ce faire des travaux de Gunther Anders, penseur allemand qui a consacré une large partie de son œuvre à la critique de la technologie et de la modernité. L’objectif du…
Explanations and excuses in French sociology
The terrorist attacks that struck France in 2015 had reverberations throughout the country's intellectual fields. Among the most significant was a widespread polemic that turned around whether sociological explanations of the attacks amounted to excuses and justifications for terrorists. When prominent politicians and pundits made allegations of this nature, sociologists reacted in three main ways: most denied the allegations, others reappropriat…
Public Epistemologies and Intellectual Interventions in Contemporary Italy
Building on recent work in the sociology of intellectual interventions, the study of cultural boundaries of science, and the role of ideas in politics, the article develops a theory of public epistemologies as argumentative tools people use to support or oppose political positions. Two prominent public epistemologies that have recently crystallized in Italian politics are taken as illustrations, with special attention paid to the role of two acad…
Social science as apologia
The social sciences are predominantly seen by their practitioners as critical endeavours, which should inform criticism of harmful institutions, beliefs and practices. Accordingly, political attacks on the social sciences are often interpreted as revealing an unwillingness to accept criticism and an acquiescence with the status quo. But this dominant view of the political implications of social scientific knowledge misses the fact that people can…
Disciplinary identity and the idea of a unified social science
How Social Scientists Make Causal Claims in Court
This paper contributes to two topics that have received insufficient attention in science and technology studies: the social dimensions of causal reasoning and how the knowledge-making site of expert testimony affects the production and reception of social scientific knowledge. It deals with how social scientists make causal claims when testifying as expert witnesses in trials where causal claims are relevant, using as a case study the so-called …
Jean-Jacques Delfour, La Condition nucléaire. Réflexions sur la situation atomique de l’humanité
Jean-Jacques Delfour, agrégé de philosophie et auteur notamment de Télé, bagnole et autres prothèses, se livre dans cet ouvrage à une tâche hardie : porter un regard philosophique sur les technologies nucléaires et dévoiler leurs implications sur la vie humaine, en s’inspirant pour ce faire des travaux de Gunther Anders, penseur allemand qui a consacré une large partie de son œuvre à la critique de la technologie et de la modernité. L’objectif du…
How Social Scientists Make Causal Claims in Court
This paper contributes to two topics that have received insufficient attention in science and technology studies: the social dimensions of causal reasoning and how the knowledge-making site of expert testimony affects the production and reception of social scientific knowledge. It deals with how social scientists make causal claims when testifying as expert witnesses in trials where causal claims are relevant, using as a case study the so-called …
Public Epistemologies and Intellectual Interventions in Contemporary Italy
Building on recent work in the sociology of intellectual interventions, the study of cultural boundaries of science, and the role of ideas in politics, the article develops a theory of public epistemologies as argumentative tools people use to support or oppose political positions. Two prominent public epistemologies that have recently crystallized in Italian politics are taken as illustrations, with special attention paid to the role of two acad…
When Boundary Organisations Fail
Notwithstanding the alleged crisis of expertise, scientists increasingly act as expert advisors to governments, while organisations at the boundary between science and policy multiply. Experts in such contexts are often subject to contradictory injunctions, associated with the role of either scientist or public official. Role conflict is particularly intense when decisions informed by scientific advice have negative consequences. In these situati…
Social science as apologia
The social sciences are predominantly seen by their practitioners as critical endeavours, which should inform criticism of harmful institutions, beliefs and practices. Accordingly, political attacks on the social sciences are often interpreted as revealing an unwillingness to accept criticism and an acquiescence with the status quo. But this dominant view of the political implications of social scientific knowledge misses the fact that people can…
Explanations and excuses in French sociology
The terrorist attacks that struck France in 2015 had reverberations throughout the country's intellectual fields. Among the most significant was a widespread polemic that turned around whether sociological explanations of the attacks amounted to excuses and justifications for terrorists. When prominent politicians and pundits made allegations of this nature, sociologists reacted in three main ways: most denied the allegations, others reappropriat…
Are Theories Politically Flexible
Social theories are politically flexible if people use them to support opposite political claims. But is this even possible? And what kind of theories have such a property? Moving beyond epistemological debates about neutrality and value-leadenness, this article defends an empirical approach to the study of flexible and rigid political uses of social theories. I identify two main sources of flexibility: endogenous properties of theories, notably …
A Stranger in His Own Field? Bellah’s Radical Critique of Science
From disappointment to audience switch
Disciplinary identity and the idea of a unified social science
The left and the right in the ethnographic imagination
Roots of Distrust
This article examines the wave of resistance to science-based containment measures during the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Salento, Italy, an ongoing plant epidemic that has severely affected olive trees since the early 2010s. It challenges two dominant frameworks for interpreting anti-expert mobilizations: one focusing on the populist glorification of common sense and the illusion of understanding fostered by easy access to information; the ot…
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