Jeff Kochan
Biographic Data
| ID | 158559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Kochan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Kochan |
| SIGNATURE | KOCHAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3217-6313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animism and science in European perspective
Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism
Tim Ingold draws a sharp line between animism and hylomorphism, that is, between his relational ontology and a rival genealogical ontology. He argues that genealogical hylomorphism collapses under a fallacy of circularity, while his relationism does not. Yet Ingold fails to distinguish between vicious or fallacious circles, on the one hand, and virtuous or hermeneutic circles, on the other. I demonstrate that hylomorphism and Ingold's relational …
Animism and natural teleology from Avicenna to Boyle
ArgumentHistorians have claimed that the two closely related concepts of animism and natural teleology were both decisively rejected in the Scientific Revolution. They tout Robert Boyle as an early modern warden against pre-modern animism. Discussing Avicenna, Aquinas, and Buridan, as well as Renaissance psychology, I instead suggest that teleology went through a slow and uneven process of rationalization. As Neoplatonic theology gained influence…
Science as Social Existence
Steve Fuller
Objective styles in northern field science
Putting a spin on circulating reference, or how to rediscover the scientific subject
Subjectivity and emotion in scientific research
Husserl and the phenomenology of science
Latour’s Heidegger
Bruno Latour has had a tremendous impact on the field of science studies.Yet, it is not always easy to say what he stands for. Indeed, Latour has often claimed that his work lacks any overall unity. In this essay, I suggest that at least one concept remains constant throughout Latour’s diverse studies of modern science and technology, namely, mediation. I try to make good this claim by focussing on Latour’s numerous attempts over the years to dis…
Contrastive Explanation and the ‘Strong Programme’ in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
In this essay, I address a novel criticism recently levelled at the Strong Programme by Nick Tosh and Tim Lewens. Tosh and Lewens paint Strong Programme theorists as trading on a contrastive form of explanation. With this, they throw valuable new light on the explanatory methods employed by the Strong Programme. However, as I shall argue, Tosh and Lewens run into trouble when they accuse Strong Programme theorists of unduly restricting the contra…
Rescuing the Gorgias from Latour
Bruno Latour has been attempting to transform his sociological account of science into an ambitious theory of democracy. In a key early moment in this project, Latour alleges that Plato’s Gorgias introduces an impossibly ratio-nalistic and deeply anti-democratic philosophy which continues to this day to distort our understandings of science and democracy. Latour reckons that if he can successfully refute the Gorgias, then he will have opened up a…
Feenberg and STS
Technological democracy or democratic technology
Latour’s Heidegger
Bruno Latour has had a tremendous impact on the field of science studies.Yet, it is not always easy to say what he stands for. Indeed, Latour has often claimed that his work lacks any overall unity. In this essay, I suggest that at least one concept remains constant throughout Latour’s diverse studies of modern science and technology, namely, mediation. I try to make good this claim by focussing on Latour’s numerous attempts over the years to dis…
Objective styles in northern field science
Subjectivity and emotion in scientific research
Animism and natural teleology from Avicenna to Boyle
ArgumentHistorians have claimed that the two closely related concepts of animism and natural teleology were both decisively rejected in the Scientific Revolution. They tout Robert Boyle as an early modern warden against pre-modern animism. Discussing Avicenna, Aquinas, and Buridan, as well as Renaissance psychology, I instead suggest that teleology went through a slow and uneven process of rationalization. As Neoplatonic theology gained influence…
Contrastive Explanation and the ‘Strong Programme’ in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
In this essay, I address a novel criticism recently levelled at the Strong Programme by Nick Tosh and Tim Lewens. Tosh and Lewens paint Strong Programme theorists as trading on a contrastive form of explanation. With this, they throw valuable new light on the explanatory methods employed by the Strong Programme. However, as I shall argue, Tosh and Lewens run into trouble when they accuse Strong Programme theorists of unduly restricting the contra…
Feenberg and STS
Animism and science in European perspective
Putting a spin on circulating reference, or how to rediscover the scientific subject
Technological democracy or democratic technology
Rescuing the Gorgias from Latour
Bruno Latour has been attempting to transform his sociological account of science into an ambitious theory of democracy. In a key early moment in this project, Latour alleges that Plato’s Gorgias introduces an impossibly ratio-nalistic and deeply anti-democratic philosophy which continues to this day to distort our understandings of science and democracy. Latour reckons that if he can successfully refute the Gorgias, then he will have opened up a…
Feenberg and STS
Contrastive Explanation and the ‘Strong Programme’ in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
In this essay, I address a novel criticism recently levelled at the Strong Programme by Nick Tosh and Tim Lewens. Tosh and Lewens paint Strong Programme theorists as trading on a contrastive form of explanation. With this, they throw valuable new light on the explanatory methods employed by the Strong Programme. However, as I shall argue, Tosh and Lewens run into trouble when they accuse Strong Programme theorists of unduly restricting the contra…
Latour’s Heidegger
Bruno Latour has had a tremendous impact on the field of science studies.Yet, it is not always easy to say what he stands for. Indeed, Latour has often claimed that his work lacks any overall unity. In this essay, I suggest that at least one concept remains constant throughout Latour’s diverse studies of modern science and technology, namely, mediation. I try to make good this claim by focussing on Latour’s numerous attempts over the years to dis…
Husserl and the phenomenology of science
Subjectivity and emotion in scientific research
Steve Fuller
Objective styles in northern field science
Putting a spin on circulating reference, or how to rediscover the scientific subject
Science as Social Existence
Animism and natural teleology from Avicenna to Boyle
ArgumentHistorians have claimed that the two closely related concepts of animism and natural teleology were both decisively rejected in the Scientific Revolution. They tout Robert Boyle as an early modern warden against pre-modern animism. Discussing Avicenna, Aquinas, and Buridan, as well as Renaissance psychology, I instead suggest that teleology went through a slow and uneven process of rationalization. As Neoplatonic theology gained influence…
Animism and science in European perspective
Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism
Tim Ingold draws a sharp line between animism and hylomorphism, that is, between his relational ontology and a rival genealogical ontology. He argues that genealogical hylomorphism collapses under a fallacy of circularity, while his relationism does not. Yet Ingold fails to distinguish between vicious or fallacious circles, on the one hand, and virtuous or hermeneutic circles, on the other. I demonstrate that hylomorphism and Ingold's relational …
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