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This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and
philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in
shaping objective science and the history of dominance of
reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant
conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self -
that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined,
self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully
driven by social and scientific ethos - in favour of a narrative
that shows how the microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted,
questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the
scientist-subject. The author covers a century-long history of the
concept of the gene as a series of "pioneering moments" through an
engagement with life-writings of eminent scientists to show how
their ways of being and belonging relate with the making of the
science. The scientist-self is theorized as fundamentally a
feeling, experiencing, and suffering subject split between the
conscious and unconscious and constitutive of personality aspects
that are emotional/psychological, "situated" (cultural and
ideological), metaphysical, intersubjective, and existential at the
same time. An engaging interdisciplinary interpretation of the
dominance of reductionism in genetic science, this book will be of
major interest to scholars and researchers of science, history, and
philosophy alike.
This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and
philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in
shaping objective science and the history of dominance of
reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant
conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self -
that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined,
self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully
driven by social and scientific ethos - in favour of a narrative
that shows how the microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted,
questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the
scientist-subject. The author covers a century-long history of the
concept of the gene as a series of "pioneering moments" through an
engagement with life-writings of eminent scientists to show how
their ways of being and belonging relate with the making of the
science. The scientist-self is theorized as fundamentally a
feeling, experiencing, and suffering subject split between the
conscious and unconscious and constitutive of personality aspects
that are emotional/psychological, "situated" (cultural and
ideological), metaphysical, intersubjective, and existential at the
same time. An engaging interdisciplinary interpretation of the
dominance of reductionism in genetic science, this book will be of
major interest to scholars and researchers of science, history, and
philosophy alike.
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