interesting that climate science doesn't count as a controversy for Latour, because there aren't significant disputes among the top scientists about the interpretation of data or the mobilization of citations. If he had focused on brain science in the Gifford Lectures, the brain or body and the future of the body -- the body as the individual and the entity and the demos/people -- that would have been very interesting. I can see why he focuses on climate and ecology: a smart, insufficient move.
"they are so viciously attacked, my colleagues, that they claim to defend the mantel of science against their science"
interesting that climate science doesn't count as a controversy for Latour, because there aren't significant disputes among the top scientists about the interpretation of data or the mobilization of citations. If he had focused on brain science in the Gifford Lectures, the brain or body and the future of the body -- the body as the individual and the entity and the demos/people -- that would have been very interesting. I can see why he focuses on climate and ecology: a smart, insufficient move.
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel!
- with apologies to Hegel.