Over at Metapsychology Online Reviews, Ian James Kidd writes a generally positive review of Sandra Harding’s most recent book – Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities (Duke UP, 2008). An excerpt from the review:
“Drawing upon contemporary literature in the history and philosophy of science, Harding argues that the alleged ‘objectivity’ of the sciences has for too long disguised
Over the past year I’ve posted a few times (here and here) about the Critical Neuroscience project. Now three of the people behind the effort (Suparna Choudhury, Saskia Kathi Nagel and Jan Slaby) have published a programmatic statement in BioSocieties: “Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice.”
Here’s their abstract:
…We outline the framework
I may be the last person to have heard about this, but I’m going to post it anyway. The other day a friend told me about an excellent series of podcasts on CBC Radio One’s Ideas program called How To Think About Science.
The series is basically a set of interviews with many of the leading philosophers, historians, anthropologists …
This past week I attended the Critical Neuroscience workshop held here at McGill. Daniel Lende – who came up for the workshop – has written about it at Neuroanthropology. In particular, he’s posted a very nice summary he gave on the final day of the event on different approaches to studying and thinking about the “cultural brain.”
The event …
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