The Scales of Experience: Introduction to the Special Issue Experiencing the Global Environment (2018)
Camprubí, Lino (Author)
Lehmann, Philipp Nicolas (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 70
Pages: 1-5
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
The Scales of Experience introduces the special issue Experiencing the Global Environment by focusing on three dimensions of the theme that are reflected to various degrees in the constitutive essays. First, the introduction highlights the links between the epistemological and political contexts of the historical constitution and development of the global environment (or global environments) in the earth and environmental sciences from the late nineteenth century to today. Second, it argues for a historical approach to the complex concept of scientific experience, whose mutable and contingent qualities are demonstrated by the contributions to the special volume. Lastly, the introduction presents one of the central issues to be tackled by the essays to follow: the development – and, at times, the failure – of strategies and technologies to bridge the seemingly incommensurate gulf between individual, localized experience and the all-encompassing scale of the global environment.
...MoreArticle Angela N. H. Creager (2018) Human Bodies as Chemical Sensors: A History of Biomonitoring for Environmental Health and Regulation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 70-81).
Article Fa-ti Fan (2018) Can Animals Predict Earthquakes?: Bio-sentinels as Seismic Sensors in Communist China and Beyond. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 58-69).
Article Elena Aronova (2018) Earthquake Prediction, Biological Clocks, and the Cold War Psy-Ops: Using Animals as Seismic Sensors in the 1970s California. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 50-57).
Article Philipp Lehmann (2018) Average Rainfall and the Play of Colors: Colonial Experience and Global Climate Data. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 38-49).
Article Etienne S. Benson (2018) Re-Situating Fieldwork and Re-Narrating Disciplinary History in Global Mega-Geomorphology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 28-37).
Article Jeremy Vetter (2018) Experiential and Cosmopolitan Knowledge: The Transcontinental Field Practices of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 18-27).
Article Lino Camprubí (2018) Experiencing Deep and Global Currents at a ‘prototypical Strait’, 1870s and 1980s. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 6-17).
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