Ken Alder
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 277450 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ken Alder |
| PRENOMES | Ken |
| SOBRENOME | Alder |
| ASSINATURA | ALDER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northwestern University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
John Philipp Baesler. Clearer than Truth
The lie detector holds up a dark mirror to twentieth-century American history. While the polygraph has flourished in the United States, it has rarely been adopted in other countries and is largely banned from U.S. criminal courts. After all, scientific experts have repeatedly shown that the technique is unreliable, and they have disavowed it in everything from a poll of academic psychologists in the 1920s to the damning report of the National Aca…
The History of Science as Oxymoron
This essay argues that historians of science who seek to embody our oxymoronic self-description must confront both contradictory terms that define our common enterprise--that is, both "history" and "science." On the history/methods side, it suggests that we embrace the heterogeneity of our institutional arrangements and repudiate the homogeneous disciplinary model sometimes advocated by Thomas Kuhn and followed by art history. This implies that r…
America's Two Gadgets
This essay pairs two prototypically American technological objects of the mid‐twentieth century: the atomic bomb and the lie detector. Although the former has been touted as the supreme achievement of modern technoscience, and the latter dismissed as a placebo device, the two “gadgets” actually performed in analogous fashion. Indeed, the essay suggests that these technologies are best understood not in terms of narrow functionality but in terms o…
History's Greatest Forger
A Social History of Untruth
THE POLYGRAPH FOR LIE DETECTION is a ''placebo'' technology whose ability to sort truth from falsehood depends essentially on the subject's belief in the efficacy of the instrument (as opposed to any ''real'' efficacy). In this sense, the lie detector is a technology that belongs to the realm of the social imaginary. As such, it offers an ideal probe into the shifting grounds of trust and mistrust in twentieth-century America. Originally designed…
Une histoire de la Méridienne
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
This judicious history of eighteenth-century French architecture treats themes important to any understanding of the development of the European built environment. Antoine Picon tracks the transition from the classical architecture of the absolutist seventeenth century to the engineering-led construction of the industrial nineteenth.
Communications
Engineering the Revolution
Making Things the Same
This paper documents the connection between the technological and political transformations of late 18th-century France. Its subject is the efforts of state military engineers to produce functionally identical artifacts (interchangeable parts manufacturing). These efforts faced resistance from artisans and merchants attached to the corporate-absolutist ancien régime, for whom artifacts were idiosyncratic, and `thick' with multiple meanings. I arg…
Engineering the Revolution
Des techniciens en charge de la production d'armes pour la crise militaire de la revolution Francaise ont developpe des canons composes de parties interchangeables
The Closed World
Journal Article The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. By Paul N. Edwards. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. xxii, 440 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-262-05051-X.) Get access Ken Alder Ken Alder Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1130–1131, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953215 Pu…
Innovation and Amnesia
L'interchangeabilite des parts de production est adoptee en France par les ingenieurs de l'artillerie afin de developper la production de masse
Science, Industry, and the Social Order in Post-Revolutionary France
TWO A Revolution to Measure
The Values of Precision
Making Things the Same
This paper documents the connection between the technological and political transformations of late 18th-century France. Its subject is the efforts of state military engineers to produce functionally identical artifacts (interchangeable parts manufacturing). These efforts faced resistance from artisans and merchants attached to the corporate-absolutist ancien régime, for whom artifacts were idiosyncratic, and `thick' with multiple meanings. I arg…
A Social History of Untruth
THE POLYGRAPH FOR LIE DETECTION is a ''placebo'' technology whose ability to sort truth from falsehood depends essentially on the subject's belief in the efficacy of the instrument (as opposed to any ''real'' efficacy). In this sense, the lie detector is a technology that belongs to the realm of the social imaginary. As such, it offers an ideal probe into the shifting grounds of trust and mistrust in twentieth-century America. Originally designed…
The History of Science as Oxymoron
This essay argues that historians of science who seek to embody our oxymoronic self-description must confront both contradictory terms that define our common enterprise--that is, both "history" and "science." On the history/methods side, it suggests that we embrace the heterogeneity of our institutional arrangements and repudiate the homogeneous disciplinary model sometimes advocated by Thomas Kuhn and followed by art history. This implies that r…
Innovation and Amnesia
L'interchangeabilite des parts de production est adoptee en France par les ingenieurs de l'artillerie afin de developper la production de masse
America's Two Gadgets
This essay pairs two prototypically American technological objects of the mid‐twentieth century: the atomic bomb and the lie detector. Although the former has been touted as the supreme achievement of modern technoscience, and the latter dismissed as a placebo device, the two “gadgets” actually performed in analogous fashion. Indeed, the essay suggests that these technologies are best understood not in terms of narrow functionality but in terms o…
History's Greatest Forger
TWO A Revolution to Measure
The Values of Precision
Science, Industry, and the Social Order in Post-Revolutionary France
The Closed World
Journal Article The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. By Paul N. Edwards. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. xxii, 440 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-262-05051-X.) Get access Ken Alder Ken Alder Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1130–1131, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953215 Pu…
Innovation and Amnesia
L'interchangeabilite des parts de production est adoptee en France par les ingenieurs de l'artillerie afin de developper la production de masse
Engineering the Revolution
Making Things the Same
This paper documents the connection between the technological and political transformations of late 18th-century France. Its subject is the efforts of state military engineers to produce functionally identical artifacts (interchangeable parts manufacturing). These efforts faced resistance from artisans and merchants attached to the corporate-absolutist ancien régime, for whom artifacts were idiosyncratic, and `thick' with multiple meanings. I arg…
Engineering the Revolution
Des techniciens en charge de la production d'armes pour la crise militaire de la revolution Francaise ont developpe des canons composes de parties interchangeables
Communications
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
This judicious history of eighteenth-century French architecture treats themes important to any understanding of the development of the European built environment. Antoine Picon tracks the transition from the classical architecture of the absolutist seventeenth century to the engineering-led construction of the industrial nineteenth.
Une histoire de la Méridienne
A Social History of Untruth
THE POLYGRAPH FOR LIE DETECTION is a ''placebo'' technology whose ability to sort truth from falsehood depends essentially on the subject's belief in the efficacy of the instrument (as opposed to any ''real'' efficacy). In this sense, the lie detector is a technology that belongs to the realm of the social imaginary. As such, it offers an ideal probe into the shifting grounds of trust and mistrust in twentieth-century America. Originally designed…
History's Greatest Forger
America's Two Gadgets
This essay pairs two prototypically American technological objects of the mid‐twentieth century: the atomic bomb and the lie detector. Although the former has been touted as the supreme achievement of modern technoscience, and the latter dismissed as a placebo device, the two “gadgets” actually performed in analogous fashion. Indeed, the essay suggests that these technologies are best understood not in terms of narrow functionality but in terms o…
The History of Science as Oxymoron
This essay argues that historians of science who seek to embody our oxymoronic self-description must confront both contradictory terms that define our common enterprise--that is, both "history" and "science." On the history/methods side, it suggests that we embrace the heterogeneity of our institutional arrangements and repudiate the homogeneous disciplinary model sometimes advocated by Thomas Kuhn and followed by art history. This implies that r…
John Philipp Baesler. Clearer than Truth
The lie detector holds up a dark mirror to twentieth-century American history. While the polygraph has flourished in the United States, it has rarely been adopted in other countries and is largely banned from U.S. criminal courts. After all, scientific experts have repeatedly shown that the technique is unreliable, and they have disavowed it in everything from a poll of academic psychologists in the 1920s to the damning report of the National Aca…
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