Toward a Historical Epistemology of Research

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Speaker: Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

This talk is part of the "The New and Old Materialisms Across the Disciplines" series, organized by Sarah Ellenzweig (English) and Jack Zammito (history). The main focus of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s research lies in the history and epistemology of experimentation in the life sciences. By bridging the gap between the study of history and contemporary cutting-edge sciences, such as molecular biology, his work represents an example of transdisciplinarity as emerging in the present knowledge-based society.