The Covid-19 pandemic has offered all kinds of interesting case studies for those who study controversies in science, technology, and medicine. Hydroxychloroquine is one of them. It’s a bit unusual in that it highlights how the left-liberal mediasphere has sometimes followed similar trajectories as more commonly found on the (Trumpist) political right. But it’s interesting […]
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Hydroxychloroquine, and other things (an STS perspective)
Posted in Science & society, tagged COVID-19, Hydroxychloroquine, medicine, Norman Doidge, pandemic politics, public communication of science, replication crisis, science and technology studies, science controversies, STS on August 20, 2020 | 4 Comments »
“Ontology Across the Disciplines” reading group
Posted in Philosophy, tagged anthropology, Descola, Kohn, Latour, ontological turn, Ontology, epistemology, reading groups, STS on February 8, 2015 | 3 Comments »
I’m participating in a reading group here at the University of Vermont entitled “Ontology Across the Disciplines.” (More than just participating… I’ve been gently arm-twisted by the organizers, anthropologists Parker Van Valkenberg and Ben Eastman, into chairing the discussions. Thanks, guys 😉 ) Since I know there are folks out there who may be interested, […]