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SUMMARY:Thinking 'through numbers' - Hélène Mialet (Harvard University)
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:Science studies has shown that scientific knowledge is above a
 ll about practice. In my paper\, I will question the possibility of doing 
 theoretical physics without being able to manipulate equations or draw dia
 grams. Can one see 'through numbers'? And/or can numbers be replaced by wo
 rds? Is intuition an individual or a collective process? Can we eliminate 
 the persistent phantom of cognitive explanations\, and\, if not\, has anth
 ropology of science failed? Or can we talk about cognitive processes diffe
 rently? If we think that the term practice embraces all activities and tha
 t the dichotomy between theory and practice is only a theoretical one\, wh
 at do theoreticians 'do' that is different from what experimentalists or a
 ccountants do? What kinds of objects are produced? And how do we/they prod
 uce 'abstraction'?
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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