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• 19 avr 2012

  20 avr 2012

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Herder et les arts

  Esthétique, théorie et histoire

  Dans l'histoire de la pensée esthétique, les travaux de J. G. Herder (1744-1803) ont une importance centrale. Herder est en effet un lecteur assidu des théories de l'art produites par les auteurs de l'Antiquité et par les penseurs européens des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Contemporain de Diderot, Lessing et Winckelmann, inspirateur du jeune Goethe, Herder réfléchit tant sur l'histoire des arts que sur les fondements et limites de l'esthétique que Baumgarten, vers 1750, avait cherché à constituer en discipline philosophique à part entière. Le présent colloque cherche à éclairer les principaux textes que Herder a consacrés à l'histoire et à la théorie des arts.

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• 25 mar 2012

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950

  Doctoral and post-doctoral positions

  Observation in the clinic, testing in the laboratory, curve-tracing machines: we may think we know how physicians know. We don’t. That is because we have, until recently, ignored the primary medium in which medical knowledge occurs, namely, writing and its organisation andreorganisation on paper. Written patient records are almost as old as medicine itself and still central to its practice. Remarkably unexamined is how these have generated knowledge. The project aims to address a question of interest for understanding science, technology and medicine in the broadest sense: How are generalizations drawn from particulars? Keytechniques appear to be those of mastering on paper. These are shared across clinical, natural historical, pedagogical, forensic, accounting, administrative and other activity. To learn how paper technology works and how this has shaped knowledge over time, to show how human beings know and deal with the physical world through operations of pen and paper: theproject aims to contribute to this wider goal through its focus on medicine.

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