Thinking Technical Objects as Epistemological Details

Programme :

 

Monday, November 18, 2024

 

 

9.00-9.15. Introduction by the organizers

9.20-12.15. Session 1. Objects of technological knowledge

9.20-10.10. CHAMAYOU, Grégoire (CNRS, République des Savoirs)

“Looking under the Colonial Helmet’’

10.15-11.05. POTTIN, Ange (University of Vienna, ERC Project INNORES)

“The Forgotten and the Unexpected: Nuclear Decommissioning as an Epistemic Problem”

11.10-11.25: Break

 

11.25-12.15: MARŠÁLEK, Jan (Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre for Science, Technology and Society Studies)

“The Hazards of Embodiment: how Scientific Hypotheses Transformed into Technical Objects Degrade (Without Telling Anyone). The Anti-Covid Crosswalk Buttons Case”

12.15-13.45: Lunch

13.45-15.30: Session 2. Exploratory Objects

13.45-14.35: KONOPÁSEK, Zdeněk (Center for Theoretical Studies, Charles University of Prague)

“Analytic Software as a ‘Research Tool’: Revisiting the Epistemology of Qualitative Social Sciences’’

14.40-15.30: DUCOURANT, Sam (Université de Liège, HACAB),

“Chicken Cages: Technical Objects for Separating Metabolism and Milieu, or Epistemological Details for Creating an Animal Model?”

15.30-15.45: Break

15.45-17.30: Session 3. STS in Perspective

15.45-16.35: FABRY, Lucie (Université de Bourgogne, LIR3S),

“Bruno Latour and Constructivism: from Laboratory Life to Aramis, from the Philosophy of Science to the Philosophy of Technology”

16.40-17.20: TYMPAS, Aristotle (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

“On Machines, Mechanisms, Tools, Instruments, Devices and Artifacts: Definition Struggles, from Karl Marx to Louis Althusser and from Leo Marx to Bruno Latour”

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

 

 

9.00-11.50. Session 4. Technological Knowledge, Knowledge through Technology?

9.00-9.50: LE ROUX, Ronan (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, LIS)

“‘Technique interscientifique’, Generic Instruments, Inverse Invention. A Convergence of Epistemology, Philosophy of Technology, and Sociology of Science”

 

9.55-10.45: HADWIGER ZÁMEČNIK, Lukáš (Palacky University Olomouc, Faculty of Arts)

“The Shaping of Scientific Theory through Technical Innovations: a Case Study of Self-Regulating Devices”

10.45-11.00: Break

11.00-11.50: GUCHET, Xavier (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, COSTECH)

“Technology as Approximate Knowledge (connaissance approchée)”.

 

11.50-13.20: Lunch

 

13.20-15.05: Session 5. Historical Epistemology and Technology

 

13.20-14.10: BENSAUDE-VINCENT, Bernadette (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

“French Epistemologists’ Perspectives on Nuclear Reactors (1940-1980)”

14.15-15.05: ROUX, Sophie (ENS-PSL, République des Savoirs)

“Science and Technology in Perspectives: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Simondon’’

15.05-15.20: Break

 

15.20-17.00: General Discussion

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