Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Post-Doc, Institut für Philosophie

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Cambridge (Visiting Scholar)

Thesis Title: Contextuality of Early Modern Sciences

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The historicity of sciences relates in a certain sense to the history of their contextual establishment or their contextualization. In the same way how a scientific discipline originates in a definite historical context, its historical development takes place in the form of a contextual expansion or a contextual confinement. Contextualization can be perceived as a process of disciplinary and domain specific demarcation in which the science establishes itself historically. Accordingly, the origin and development of every new discipline is characterized with respect to the established scientific disciplines either by a contextual relationship or by a contextual difference. The scientificity, though it appears to transcend every historic-epochal confinement, proves itself hardly to be non-historic. A historical significance is generally ascribed to the origin and development of sciences; it enables us to analyze them in historical contexts. The proposed research project aims at deriving an internal process of contextualization which is latent in every area of science from the historical development of modern sciences and demarcating it against an external process of contextualization which is determined rather through subjective paradigms.

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