Our own Todd Meyers and Stefanos Geroulanos have translated and edited an exciting new collection of short essays by Georges Canguilhem. Writings on Medicine includes the essays, “The Idea of Nature in Medical Theory and Practice,” “Diseases,” “Health: Popular Concept and Philosophical Question,” “Is a Pedagogy of Health Possible?” and “The Problem of Regulation in the Organism and in Society,” …
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Ian Hacking – “The New Me: What Biotechnology may do to Personal Identity”
I recently came across a video of a relatively recent lecture which Ian Hacking gave at Huron University College, entitled, “The New Me: What Biotechnology may do to Personal Identity.” The short (15 min) talk — embedded below — reprises many of the issues Hacking has been dealing with for the past several years (e.g.”Ian Hacking on commercial genome-reading…
Foucault Across the Disciplines: A Special Issue
The October 2011 issue of History of the Human Sciences is a special issue entitled “Foucault Across the Disciplines.” The eight articles which compose the issue, along with guest editor Colin Koopman’s introduction,
“demonstrate the enormous gain in critical potential that can be realized by taking up Foucault’s own posture as a cross-disciplinary or counter-disciplinary thinker. One of the signal
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Conference – European Conceptions of “Life”: Biology, Psychology, Philosophy 1850-1950
The Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History and?the Remarque Institute at New York University? present a conference in European intellectual history:?
European Conceptions of ‘Life’: Biology, Psychology, Philosophy 1850-1950
Friday, December 10, 2010
Perched between different conceptions and practices of the life sciences, philosophy, historical inquiry and political purpose, the concept of life emerged in the later nineteenth century as …
In the Bubble Chamber
A group of historians and philosophers of science at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology have recently launched a collaborative blog called “The Bubble Chamber.” As they explain in one of their introductory posts, the bubble chamber was chosen partly as a metaphor or model for the kind of …
João Biehl and Peter Locke on "Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming"
The June issue of Current Anthropology includes includes an article by Princeton’s João Biehl and Peter Locke (who has written for Somatosphere in the past): “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming.” One of the wonderful things about CA articles is the commentaries genre — and this particular piece includes comments by Michael M.J. Fischer, Vanessa Fong, Angela Garcia, …