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SUMMARY:Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history
 \, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge - Sandra Harding 
 (UCLA)
DTSTART:20171102T153000Z
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CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:Recently there has appeared an explosion of writings in Englis
 h focused on perspectives on science\, technology and society from Latin A
 merica. These have met with varied responses from Northern 'international'
  history\, philosophy and social studies of science and technology. Here I
  suggest that many of the most positive and welcoming such responses never
 theless tend to replicate the now long discredited Unit of Science program
 . They do so insofar as they propose\, often enthusiastically\, to include
  the Latin American issues and arguments into their existing conceptual fr
 ameworks for the history\, philosophy or social studies of science. Yet ma
 ny of the Latin American accounts overtly resist such inclusion. Rather th
 ey insist on foregrounding the different worlds assumed by such Latin Amer
 ican work\, and\, consequently\, what they regard as valuably persisting c
 onflicts and tensions between these worlds. They advocate for parochializi
 ng Northern history\, philosophy and social studies of science\, and thus 
 for ontological as well as epistemological pluralism in these fields.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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