Apologies for cross-posting. -- AD HOC is reading group focussing on history and philosophy of chemistry. This year's theme is "Order in chemistry".
The final AdHoc event of Michaelmas 2017 is with Dr. Jean-Pierre Llored who is a visiting scholar at HPS Cambridge and at Linacre College, Oxford. The title of his talk is "How do chemists order their knowledge and know-how?” This session takes place on Monday 13th of November at 17:00-18:30 in Seminar room 1 at HPS. If you would like to join us for a dinner after the talk, please email [email protected]. The abstract: “Starting from the specificity of chemical practices, this talk aims to understand how chemists actually order their knowledge and know-how. To do so, we will point out that: (1) chemical relata and relations are constitutively co-defined within chemists’ investigative and transformative enterprise: they depend on one another within an ordered and evolving network involving chemical bodies and operations; (2) chemical explanation requires structure, composition, and operations-reactions in order to be successful in analyzing and synthesizing new bodies; (3) the surroundings plays a constitutive role in the definition, always open and provisional, of ‘active’ chemical bodies; and (4) if chemical discourses refer to active bodies and simultaneous variations of factors to describe and explain each particular action upon matter, the application of the ceteris paribus clause is not illusory in chemistry, but implies that we adapt our understanding of what is `stabilized' within such practices. As a consequence, we will explain how this shift in the meaning of the ceteris paribus clause in chemistry is of interest to understand how consistencies and inconsistensies are integrated into open-ended sets of iterative practices of stabilization. All this study will be carried out on the basis of our reading of James, Peirce, Dewey, Simondon, Harré, and Chang." Access reading through the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p41tmrx1mptm4nm/AACmIqwE2xrmgo4A1HZLJKOAa?dl=0 All best, Karoliina Pulkkinen [email protected] _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
