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  1. Data Journeys in the Sciences.Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò Tempini (eds.) - 2020 - Springer.
    This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys affect the use of data as evidence and the knowledge being produced. The volume captures the opportunities, challenges and concerns involved in (...)
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  • Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology: Triangulation and Traceability.Alison Wylie - 2020 - In Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò Tempini (eds.), Data Journeys in the Sciences. Springer. pp. 285-301.
    When radiocarbon dating techniques were applied to archaeological material in the 1950s they were hailed as a revolution. At last archaeologists could construct absolute chronologies anchored in temporal data backed by immutable laws of physics. This would make it possible to mobilize archaeological data across regions and time-periods on a global scale, rendering obsolete the local and relative chronologies on which archaeologists had long relied. As profound as the impact of 14C dating has been, it has had a long and (...)
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  • Taxonomy for Humans or Computers? Cognitive Pragmatics for Big Data.Beckett Sterner & Nico M. Franz - 2017 - Biological Theory 12 (2):99-111.
    Criticism of big data has focused on showing that more is not necessarily better, in the sense that data may lose their value when taken out of context and aggregated together. The next step is to incorporate an awareness of pitfalls for aggregation into the design of data infrastructure and institutions. A common strategy minimizes aggregation errors by increasing the precision of our conventions for identifying and classifying data. As a counterpoint, we argue that there are pragmatic trade-offs between precision (...)
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  • Where health and environment meet: the use of invariant parameters in big data analysis.Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò Tempini - 2018 - Synthese 198 (S10):2485-2504.
    The use of big data to investigate the spread of infectious diseases or the impact of the built environment on human wellbeing goes beyond the realm of traditional approaches to epidemiology, and includes a large variety of data objects produced by research communities with different methods and goals. This paper addresses the conditions under which researchers link, search and interpret such diverse data by focusing on “data mash-ups”—that is the linking of data from epidemiology, biomedicine, climate and environmental science, which (...)
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  • Science in the context of application: methodological change, conceptual transformation, cultural reorientation.Martin Carrier & Alfred Nordmann - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 1--7.
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  • Holism and Entrenchment in Climate Model Validation.Johannes Lenhard & Eric Winsberg - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 115--130.
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  • Computational Science and its Effects.Paul Humphreys - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 131--142.
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  • The political economy of technoscience.Astrid Schwarz & Alfred Nordmann - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 317--336.
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  • Biodiversity? Yes, But What Kind? A Critical Reassessment in Light of a Challenge from Microbial Ecology.Nicolae Morar - 2019 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 32 (2):201-218.
    Biodiversity has become one of the most important conservation values that drive our ecological management and directly inform our environmental policy. This paper highlights the dangers of strategically appropriating concepts from ecological sciences and also of uncritically inserting them into conservation debates as unqualified normative landmarks. Here, I marshal evidence from a cutting-edge research program in microbial ecology, which shows that if species richness is our major normative target, then we are faced with extraordinary ethical implications. This example challenges our (...)
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  • Conditions of Science: The Three-Way Tension of Freedom, Accountability and Utility.Torsten Wilholt & Hans Glimell - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 351--370.
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  • Bringing the Marketplace into Science: On the Neoliberal Defense of the Commercialization of Scientific Research.Justin Biddle - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 245--269.
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  • Knowledge, politics, and commerce: Science under the pressure of practice.Martin Carrier - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 11--30.
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  • Teaching natural history at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.Mary E. Sunderland - 2013 - British Journal for the History of Science 46 (1):97-121.
    During its centennial celebrations in 2008, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley paid homage to its founding director, Joseph Grinnell. Recognized as a leading scientific institution, the MVZ managed to grow throughout the twentieth century, a period often characterized by the decline of natural history. To understand how and why research flourished at the MVZ, this paper looks closely at Grinnell's undergraduate course, the Natural History of the Vertebrates (NHV). Taught by MVZ affiliates since (...)
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  • Materials as Machines.Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 101--111.
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  • Science in the context of technology.Alfred Nordmann - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 467--482.
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  • Protected spaces of science: their emergence and further evolution in a changing world.Arie Rip - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 197--220.
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  • Transforming Objects into Data: How Minute Technicalities of Recording “Species Location” Entrench a Basic Challenge for Biodiversity.Ayelet Shavit & James Griesemer - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 169--193.
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  • Life, Time, and the Organism: Temporal Registers in the Construction of Life Forms.Dominic J. Berry & Paolo Palladino - 2019 - Journal of the History of Biology 52 (2):223-243.
    In this paper we articulate how time and temporalities are involved in the making of living things. For these purposes, we draw on an instructive episode concerning Norfolk Horn sheep. We attend to historical debates over the nature of the breed, whether it is extinct or not, and whether presently living exemplars are faithful copies of those that came before. We argue that there are features to these debates that are important to understanding contemporary configurations of life, time, and the (...)
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  • (1 other version)Thoughts on politicization of science through commercialization.M. Norton Wise - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 283--299.
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  • An Epoch-Making Change in the Development of Science? A Critique of the “Epochal-Break-Thesis”.Gregor Schiemann - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 431--453.
    In recent decades, several authors have claimed that an epoch-making change in the development of science is taking place. A closer examination of this claim shows that these authors take different – and problematic – concepts of an epochal break as their points of departure. In order to facilitate an evaluation of the current development of science, I would like to propose a concept of an epochal change according to which it is not necessarily a discontinuous process that typically begins (...)
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  • Integrating the Ethical into Scientific Rationality.Janet A. Kourany - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 371--386.
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  • What Makes Computer Science a Science?Michael S. Mahoney - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 389--408.
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  • Multi-level complexities in technological development: Competing strategies for drug discovery.Matthias Adam - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 67--83.
    Drug development regularly has to deal with complex circumstances on two levels: the local level of pharmacological intervention on specific target proteins, and the systems level of the effects of pharmacological intervention on the organism. Different development strategies in the recent history of early drug development can be understood as competing attempts at coming to grips with these multi-level complexities. Both rational drug design and high-throughput screening concentrate on the local level, while traditional empirical search strategies as well as recent (...)
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  • Everything New Is Old Again: What Place Should Applied Science Have in the History of Science?Ann Johnson - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 455--466.
    Science studies scholars of the twenty-first century have been arguing for a reconceptualization of science based on the emergence of new values and practices. Allegedly, these new norms have come from science in the context of application. However, the argument here is that science in the context of application is a phenomenon with as long and rich a history as so-called pure or basic science. Science in the context of application only appears to be new since so little light has (...)
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  • The Cognitive, Instrumental and Institutional Origins of Nanoscale Research: The Place of Biology.Anne Marcovich & Terry Shinn - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 221--242.
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  • Between the Pure and Applied: The Search for the Elusive Middle Ground.Margaret Morrison - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 31--45.
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  • Expertise in Methods, Methods of Expertise.Carsten Reinhardt - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 143--159.
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  • Recent Orientations and Reorientations in the Life Sciences.Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 161--168.
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  • Political Effectiveness in Science and Technology.Daniel Sarewitz - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 301--315.
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  • Black-Boxing Organisms, Exploiting the Unpredictable: Control Paradigms in Human–Machine Translations.Jutta Weber - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 409--429.
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  • Science, the Public and the Media–Views from Everywhere.Peter Weingart - 2011 - In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Springer. pp. 337--348.
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  • “Location” Incommensurability and “Replication” Indeterminacy: Clarifying an Entrenched Conflation by Using an Involved Approach.Ayelet Shavit - 2016 - Perspectives on Science 24 (4):425-442.
    . Reproducible results and repeatable measurements at the same location are fundamental to science, yet of grave concern to scientists. Involvement in biological re-surveys under MVZ-Berkeley, Harvard-LTER and Hamaarag elucidated “replication” and “location” and untangled “incommensurability” from “no fact of the matter” and “indeterminacy.” All cases revealed incommensurability without indeterminacy on the smallest scale and indeterminacy without incommensurability on higher scales, with communication failure in the former and successful workarounds in the latter. I argue that an involved philosophy helps clarify (...)
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  • Science and Sentiment: Grinnell’s Fact-Based Philosophy of Biodiversity Conservation.Ayelet Shavit & James R. Griesemer - 2018 - Journal of the History of Biology 51 (2):283-318.
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, the biologist Joseph Grinnell made a distinction between science and sentiment for producing fact-based generalizations on how to conserve biodiversity. We are inspired by Grinnellian science, which successfully produced a century-long impact on studying and conserving biodiversity that runs orthogonal to some familiar philosophical distinctions such as fact versus value, emotion versus reason and basic versus applied science. According to Grinnell, unlike sentiment-based generalizations, a fact-based generalization traces its diverse commitments and thus becomes (...)
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  • Modernizing Natural History: Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Transition. [REVIEW]Mary E. Sunderland - 2013 - Journal of the History of Biology 46 (3):369-400.
    Throughout the twentieth century calls to modernize natural history motivated a range of responses. It was unclear how research in natural history museums would participate in the significant technological and conceptual changes that were occurring in the life sciences. By the 1960s, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, was among the few university-based natural history museums that were able to maintain their specimen collections and support active research. The MVZ therefore provides a window to the (...)
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