Overview
Introduces a new field of investigation in Science Studies
Opens up a novel political approach to epistemology
Complements historical epistemology with political theory
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). He is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research endeavor “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe” (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). Together with Jürgen Renn he authored the book Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585) (2019). His forthcoming books include the co-edited volume Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World: Gramscian Concepts for the History of Science (with Massimiliano Badino) and Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science (with Rodolfo Garau).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Epistemology
Book Subtitle: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies
Authors: Pietro Daniel Omodeo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23120-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23119-4Published: 24 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23122-4Published: 24 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23120-0Published: 14 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 155
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Political Theory, Historiography and Method, Knowledge - Discourse