Month: December 2014
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Activist history of science and its philosophical implications
Hans Schouwenburg does not seem to be on his own in his ‘emotional call to arms’ for history of science activism. Although all participants took a plane to get to the latest meeting of the History of Science Society in Chicago (6-9 November, 2014), socially engaged history of science was a remarkably present theme. Several…
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Darwin op SBS? De burger en de wetenschap anno 2014
De afgelopen maand is er veel te doen over de rol van wetenschap in onze samenleving, en een goed gelezen contribuant aan deze discussie is Rob Wijnberg. Na ons eerder al op de Correspondent verteld te hebben hoe het opdoeken van de filosofiefaculteit aan de Erasmusuniversiteit het moment markeert waarop we als samenleving collectief gestopt…
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Dissecting the ‘Chain of Creation’: Edward Tyson and Anatomical Natural History
In 1698, Edward Tyson, an English anatomist, attempted to treat a sick chimpanzee. A group of sailors who had captured it in what is now Angola brought the young male chimp to Tyson after it developed an abscess in its mouth. Tyson referred to the chimpanzee as his “Pygmie” wondering if it should be classified…