Jessica Riskin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 375931 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jessica Riskin |
| PRENOMES | Jessica |
| SOBRENOME | Riskin |
| ASSINATURA | RISKIN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)
Biology’s mistress, a brief history
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public. 1 According to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, professor of natural history at the M
Haeckel's Embryos
Review Article| January 01 2020 Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud by Nick Hopwood Hopwood, Nick, Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 392 pp. Jessica Riskin Jessica Riskin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 187a–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site C…
Striving Machinery
The Early Modern Machine
It is easy, especially for a generation of students who entered kindergarten in the age of Google, to think that machines, before the advent of electronic computers (and smart phones and iPads), were heavy, clunky, stupid things—big, industrial, hissing with steam and clanking their gears. Or if they weren't heavy and hissing, at least they were rigid and rote: a clock inexorably ticking its way around the dial, an automaton executing brittle mot…
Nature Engaged
This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronol
The Divine Optician
Charles Darwin, giving rise to certain uneasy passages in his writings that are now favorites among proponents of the "Intelligent Design" and "Creation Science" movement.One such passage is in On the Origin of Species
Genesis Redux
Cottage in a Boudoir
Eighteenth-Century Wetware
This essay explores a similarity between the way people approached the relation of life to machinery during the second half of the eighteenth century, and the way they have been exploring this relation during the second half of the twentieth century and turn of the twenty-first. The essay describes a moment of intense interest in producing artificial life, from the 1730s to the 1790s, examines what set the projects of this moment apart from previ…
The "Spirit of System" and the Fortunes of Physiocracy
Research Article| December 01 2003 The “Spirit of System” and the Fortunes of Physiocracy Jessica Riskin Jessica Riskin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 42–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-Suppl_1-42 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permiss…
The Defecating Duck, or, the Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life
Science in the Age of Sensibility
Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a 'sentimental empiricism', natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conj…
The Sciences in Enlightened Europe . William Clark , Jan Golinski , Simon Schaffer
Minerva's Message
The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod
The ArgumentIn the summer of 1783, a trial took place in the French city of Arras. One M. de Vissery, a resident of the nearby village of St. Omer, was appealing a decision by his local aldermen, who required him to remove a lightning rod he had put on his chimney. His young defense lawyer was Maximilien Robespierre, who made a name for himself by winning the case. In preparation, Robespierre and his senior colleague corresponded with natural phi…
Rival Idioms for a Revolutionized Science and a Republican Citizenry
This essay examines a conflict about language that penetrated to the core of French Enlightenment science and revolutionary politics. The conflict involved two conceptions of language that the essay proposes to characterize as "cultural" and "social." This rivalry of idioms was at the center of two of the major disputes of the period: the controversy surrounding Lavoisier's and his collaborators' new chemical nomenclature of 1787 and the concurre…
The Defecating Duck, or, the Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life
The "Spirit of System" and the Fortunes of Physiocracy
Research Article| December 01 2003 The “Spirit of System” and the Fortunes of Physiocracy Jessica Riskin Jessica Riskin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 42–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-Suppl_1-42 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permiss…
Eighteenth-Century Wetware
This essay explores a similarity between the way people approached the relation of life to machinery during the second half of the eighteenth century, and the way they have been exploring this relation during the second half of the twentieth century and turn of the twenty-first. The essay describes a moment of intense interest in producing artificial life, from the 1730s to the 1790s, examines what set the projects of this moment apart from previ…
Striving Machinery
The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod
The ArgumentIn the summer of 1783, a trial took place in the French city of Arras. One M. de Vissery, a resident of the nearby village of St. Omer, was appealing a decision by his local aldermen, who required him to remove a lightning rod he had put on his chimney. His young defense lawyer was Maximilien Robespierre, who made a name for himself by winning the case. In preparation, Robespierre and his senior colleague corresponded with natural phi…
Rival Idioms for a Revolutionized Science and a Republican Citizenry
This essay examines a conflict about language that penetrated to the core of French Enlightenment science and revolutionary politics. The conflict involved two conceptions of language that the essay proposes to characterize as "cultural" and "social." This rivalry of idioms was at the center of two of the major disputes of the period: the controversy surrounding Lavoisier's and his collaborators' new chemical nomenclature of 1787 and the concurre…
Minerva's Message
The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod
The ArgumentIn the summer of 1783, a trial took place in the French city of Arras. One M. de Vissery, a resident of the nearby village of St. Omer, was appealing a decision by his local aldermen, who required him to remove a lightning rod he had put on his chimney. His young defense lawyer was Maximilien Robespierre, who made a name for himself by winning the case. In preparation, Robespierre and his senior colleague corresponded with natural phi…
The Sciences in Enlightened Europe . William Clark , Jan Golinski , Simon Schaffer
Science in the Age of Sensibility
Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a 'sentimental empiricism', natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conj…
Eighteenth-Century Wetware
This essay explores a similarity between the way people approached the relation of life to machinery during the second half of the eighteenth century, and the way they have been exploring this relation during the second half of the twentieth century and turn of the twenty-first. The essay describes a moment of intense interest in producing artificial life, from the 1730s to the 1790s, examines what set the projects of this moment apart from previ…
The "Spirit of System" and the Fortunes of Physiocracy
Research Article| December 01 2003 The “Spirit of System” and the Fortunes of Physiocracy Jessica Riskin Jessica Riskin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 42–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-Suppl_1-42 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permiss…
The Defecating Duck, or, the Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life
Cottage in a Boudoir
Genesis Redux
The Divine Optician
Charles Darwin, giving rise to certain uneasy passages in his writings that are now favorites among proponents of the "Intelligent Design" and "Creation Science" movement.One such passage is in On the Origin of Species
Nature Engaged
This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronol
Striving Machinery
The Early Modern Machine
It is easy, especially for a generation of students who entered kindergarten in the age of Google, to think that machines, before the advent of electronic computers (and smart phones and iPads), were heavy, clunky, stupid things—big, industrial, hissing with steam and clanking their gears. Or if they weren't heavy and hissing, at least they were rigid and rote: a clock inexorably ticking its way around the dial, an automaton executing brittle mot…
Biology’s mistress, a brief history
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public. 1 According to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, professor of natural history at the M
Haeckel's Embryos
Review Article| January 01 2020 Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud by Nick Hopwood Hopwood, Nick, Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 392 pp. Jessica Riskin Jessica Riskin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 187a–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site C…
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023)
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