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SUMMARY:Early modern history of data and epistemology of form - Aaron Hanl
 on (Colby College)
DTSTART:20190515T120000Z
DTEND:20190515T133000Z
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines several contexts in which the word 'data' e
 ntered the English language in the seventeenth century\, and how the usage
  contexts of the term evolved over the course of the seventeenth and eight
 eenth centuries. A parallel discussion will consider the various forms of 
 evidence privileged within and sometimes across different knowledge domain
 s during the same historical period: Robert Hooke's illustrations\, Willia
 m Petty's interpolated figures\, Joseph Priestley's charts\, Margaret Cave
 ndish's narrative structures\, Abraham Cowley's verse\, and others. The ta
 lk will address the question of why 'data' was used to describe some forms
  of evidence and not others as the concept took on life in early modern Br
 itain\, as well as why some forms of evidence carried more epistemological
  weight than others. This history of 'data' and forms of evidence will the
 n (I hope!) provide a useful context for examining various ongoing assumpt
 ions about the credibility of some forms of evidence over others.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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