@BioViewsHPS

Associated with the journal Studies in History & Philosophy of the Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Studies Part C)

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Joined August 2015
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Another interesting piece in ethnobiology special issue: Daniel Weiskopf's "Representing and coordinating ethnobiological knowledge" which proposes a pluralistic, local, provisional & shallow program of knowledge coordination in contrast to other models of nature @Els_SocialScien
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Newly published at Studies C: Violeta Furlan et al's "‘Ethnobiological equivocation’ and other misunderstandings in the interpretation of natures" bit.ly/Furlan_ethnobio_equiv… @Els_SocialScien which argues that the controlled equivocation method can be useful in ethnobiology
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Check out the intro for the special issue on "Social borrowings and biological appropriation" by Christophe Donohue bit.ly/Donohue_intro
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Just out from Studies C: Brian McLoone's "Population and organismal perspectives on trait origins" bit.ly/3ksKaMPc @Els_SocialScien
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The 'creative view' is critiqued but defended, in particular against arguments for the non-creative view, with attention to discussions about the "return of the organism" to evolutionary biology
Issue aims to break down perceived academic and other barriers in terms of subject, historiography, geography, discipline, and methodology, particularly between the histories of the biological and the social sciences
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Papers also seek to bridge existing lacuna e.g. between overly specialized or time period specific literature; history of science and intellectual history; and science and ideas in so-called ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ Europe
Interesting new article by Andrea Borghini et al. "A gradient framework for wild foods" bit.ly/Borghinietal_wildfood… @Els_SocialScien
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Beginning from a description of standard views on wild foods, authors propose what they contend is an ontologically more nuanced conception of wild foods, namely a gradient framework
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New article out in Studies C: Elena Popa's "Mental health, normativity, and local knowledge in global perspective" bit.ly/Popa_mentalhealth
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Explores a value-laden framework for psychiatry using partially overlapping ontologies to help overcome the universalism-relativism clash over psychiatric categories and the causal efficacy of local approaches
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New article from Studies C: Rubin et al., "Communication without common interest: A signaling experiment" bit.ly/Rubinetalcommunicatio…
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Interdisciplinary exploration of the evolution of communication, showing that common interest is not necessary for communication Authors including Hannah Rubin (ND), Justin Bruner (Arizona) @cailinmeister & Simon Huttegger (Irvine)
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Recently published online first at Studies C: JP Gamboa's "Goltz against cerebral localization" focusing on Goltz's scientific methodology & practices, applying recent phil of science to reinterpret the localisation debate bit.ly/GamboaonGoltz @PittTweet @Els_SocialScien
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Latest out online in Studies C: Antwerp's Steven Tresker's "A typology of clinical conditions" describes 8 categories encompassing all clinical conditions, using symptomaticity, dysfunction, & diagnostic criteria: bit.ly/TreskerTypologyClinCo… @Els_SocialScien #philmedicine
Now out at Studies C: Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer et al, "Free-viewing as experimental system to test the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis: A case of theory-generative experimental practice" bit.ly/GarridoetalFreeViewin… @GarridoWainer @Els_SocialScien
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Explores a case of non-exploratory, theory-oriented research in experimental neuroscience and the construction of free-viewing as an experimental system
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Shows there is a sui generis way in which experimental systems produce proper theoretical knowledge
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