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Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities and Sciences book cover

1st Edition

Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities and Sciences

Edited By Rens Bod, Isak Hammar, Jeroen van Dongen Copyright 2027
216 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Epistemic Transfer in the History of Humanities and Sciences brings together experts from the history of science, the humanities and the social sciences, investigating the mechanisms and conditions of epistemic transfer across disciplinary domains.   This book addresses the major challenge that it is to understand why disciplines borrow from one another and why some transfers spark... Read more

Table of Contents

1.      Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities and Sciences: An Introduction

Rens Bod, Isak Hammar & Jeroen van Dongen

  1. Of Flows and Friction: Epistemic Transfer in Photosynthesis Research, ca. 1900-1960

Kärin Nickelsen

  1. Autonomy, Adaptation, and Authority: Sharing and Standardising Data Practices

Emma Mojet

  1. Disciplinary Confliction and Epistemic Pluralities: Defining Auditory Imagery circa 1900

Viktoria Tkaczyk

  1. Interdisciplinary Consultation and Epistemic Transfer: Ernst Mach and Emil Wohlwill between History and Physics

Sjang ten Hagen

  1. Jan Tinbergen’s Socialism and his Transition from Physics to Economics

Manuel Buitenhuis

  1. Epistemic Commons and Enclosures: Cross-disciplinary Interactions in Disciplinary Journals

Isak Hammar

  1. Entangled Frontiers: Knowledge Interactions across Cultures and Disciplines

Kapil Raj

  1. Devil at the Crossroads. Negotiating Concepts to Understand the Anthropocene

Maria Paula Diogo & Ana Simões

10.  Epilogue: The Metaphors of Epistemic Transfer

 

Rens Bod, Isak Hammar & Jeroen van Dongen

 

Notes on Contributors

 

Biography

Rens Bod is Professor of History of the Humanities and Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interest is global knowledge histories, and his published books include A New History of the Humanities (2013), World of Patterns (2022), and The Unique Animal (forthcoming, 2027).

 

Isak Hammar is Associate Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on the history of the humanities.

 

Jeroen van Dongen is Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and co-director of the Vossius Center for History of the Humanities and Sciences in Amsterdam. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of physics, and general issues in historiography of knowledge.

 

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