Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Library of the School of Science

2024-05-25

2024

Voskeritsian Takvor

Κώστας Γαβρόγλου - Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ,
Θεόδωρος Αραμπατζής Καθηγητής Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ,
Τέλης Τύμπας - Καθηγητής Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης ΕΚΠΑ,
Ευστάθιος Αραποστάθης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης ΕΚΠΑ.
Αθηνά Συριάτου - Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Νεότερης και Σύγχρονης Ευρωπαϊκής ιστορίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Εθνολογίας, Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης
Ηλίας Γεωργαντάς - Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής στο Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης
Κώστας Ταμπάκης - Κύριος Ερευνητής, Τομέας Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών, Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών.

Radical Science Journal και Undercurrents: Όψεις του Βρετανικού κινήματος της ριζοσπαστικής επιστήμης

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Radical Science Journal and Undercurrents: Aspects of the British Radical Science Movement

My PhD focuses on the British radical science movement which was developed, largely, during the 1970s, and in particular on two of the main journals of the movement: Radical Science Journal and Undercurrents.
Radical Science Journal drew ideas foremost from the work of Karl Marx and the Marxist tradition attempting to undermine the idea of a “neutral” science and the popular distinction of “use/abuse” of science. According to the contributors of Radical Science Journal, the content of science is not determined exclusively by epistemic but by social factors. They argued that the mainstream social relations, namely the social and economic relations of capitalism, shape the scientific discourse. During the 1970s, concurrently to the development of Radical Science Journal’s ideas, the ideas of the sociology of the scientific knowledge and of the School of Edinburgh take form. The PhD examines the historical and theoretical connections between Edinburgh and Radical Science Journal and designates the fact that the idea that science is socially constructed, is produced not only in the field of the Science and Technology Studies, but in a different way and through alternative paths from the radical movement.
Undercurrents, on the other hand, is a radical science journal which doesn’t have the ideological commitments of Radical Science Journal. It is dedicated to ecology, alternative technologies and ‘fringe science’. The PhD focuses, mainly, on fringe science, namely, the ideas and practices which escape mainstream scientific analyses and touch on occultism and metaphysics. In contrast to the American radical science movement, we show that in the British case, fringe science acquires radical nature.

Science

radical science movements, Science and Technology Studies, neutrality of science, sociology of scientific knowledge, School of Edinburgh, fringe science, science and metaphysics, New Age and science

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