"An Epistemology of the Concrete" brings together case studies and
theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life
sciences by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, one of the world's foremost
philosophers of science. In these essays, he examines the history
of experiments, concepts, model organisms, instruments, and the
gamut of epistemological, institutional, political, and social
factors that determine the actual course of the development of
knowledge. Building on ideas from his influential book "Toward a
History of Epistemic Things," Rheinberger first considers ways of
historicizing scientific knowledge, and then explores different
configurations of genetic experimentation in the first half of the
twentieth century and the interaction between apparatuses,
experiments, and concept formation in molecular biology in the
second half of the twentieth century. He delves into fundamental
epistemological issues bearing on the relationship between
instruments and objects of knowledge, laboratory preparations as a
special class of epistemic objects, and the note-taking and
write-up techniques used in research labs. He takes up topics
ranging from the French "historical epistemologists" Gaston
Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem to the liquid scintillation
counter, a radioactivity measuring device that became a crucial
tool for molecular biology and biomedicine in the 1960s and 1970s.
Throughout "An Epistemology of the Concrete," Rheinberger shows how
assemblages--historical conjunctures--set the conditions for the
emergence of epistemic novelty, and he conveys the fascination of
scientific things: those organisms, spaces, apparatuses, and
techniques that are transformed by research and that transform
research in turn.
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