The next HPS seminar at Sydney will take place on Monday April 4th, at 6pm, in Carslaw 450.
Maria Kronfeldner (Bielefeld University) The Epistemic Fragmentation of Man On its way from the human Lebenswelt to science, human life becomes partitioned. Science fractionates the phenomenon of being human into different 'slices', i.e. different epistemic objects, and does so according to its disciplinary structure. Thus, none of the contemporary human sciences are studying humans as humans. Through this fragmentation, the human being itself disappears as an epistemic object of science. The question I aim to address in this talk is whether this epistemic fragmentation of 'man' in contemporary sciences is something we should condemn or not. I shall argue that we should not, at least not in principle. Fragmentation can be of epistemic value, and it can also fail to be so. I will adopt a pragmatic-pluralistic standpoint to defend this thesis and focus on an historical case to support it, namely the history of the divide between human nature and human culture in American anthropology since the end of the 19th century. DR. DOMINIC MURPHY | Senior Lecturer History and Philosophy of Science | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm No 432, Carslaw Building | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | E [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> W http://sydney.edu.au <http://sydney.edu.au/>
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