Senior Seminar: Week 2

Epistemologies of the Eye

Back to the Syllabus

  • Tufted Titmouse, John James Audubon, The Birds of America (1827–1838)
  • Snowflake, Gustave Hellmann, with microphotographs by Richard Neuhauss, Schneekrystalle: Beobachtunden und Studien (1893)

Synopsis

What does it mean to say that scientific objectivity has a history? What is the importance of studying atlas images for working scientists as well as for historians and philosophers of science?

Assigned Reading

Daston and Galison, Ch. 1 (pp. 17–53) [36 pages]

By Noon on Thursday, January 28

Annotate the assigned reading on Perusall.

By the end of the week

Start the readings for the first writing workshop.