{"554491":{"#nid":"554491","#data":{"type":"event","title":"HSOC Fall 2016 Speakers Series: Chris Toumey","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChris Toumey presents\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022Putting Scientific Knowledge into History and Society: the Work of Ludwik Fleck\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1935, the Polish\/Jewish microbiologist Ludwik Fleck published\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGenesis and Development of a Scientific Fact\u003C\/em\u003E, which anticipated later constructivist approaches to scientific knowledge, e.g., the sociology of scientific knowledge that was developed in Edinburgh four decades later.\u0026nbsp; It is regrettable that Fleck\u0027s work was obscure in his lifetime, and remained so until his book was translated into English in 1979.\u0026nbsp; In this presentation, I review Fleck\u0027s career and summarize his theories about scientific knowledge, especially his views about the history and sociology of scientific knowledge.\u0026nbsp; On that basis we can compare Fleck\u0027s work with that of Robert Merton, Thomas Kuhn, and the Edinburgh school of the sociology of knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChris Toumey is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. from UNC - Chapel Hill) who works in the anthropology of science.\u0026nbsp; Since 2003 he has been involved in societal and cultural issues in nanotechnology.\u0026nbsp; His interests there include these: public engagement with nanotech; religious reactions to nanotech; issues in the history of nanotech; and epistemological issues of technology and aesthetics in producing and interpreting micrographs of nanoscale objects (e.g., atoms, molecules and atomic surfaces).\u0026nbsp; He is the author of more than eighty publications on nanotechnology, including his humanistic commentaries that appear four times a year in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Nanotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E, where he\u0026nbsp;aspires to show scientists and engineers that the humanities and social sciences can contribute to our understandings of nanotechnology. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECo-sponsored by the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The School of History and Sociology invites anthropologist Dr. Chris Toumey from the University of South Carolina."}],"uid":"27228","created_gmt":"2016-07-21 10:22:16","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:21","author":"LaDonna Bowen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-09-28T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-09-28T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-09-28T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-09-28 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-09-28 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-09-28 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"555251":{"id":"555251","type":"image","title":"Christopher Toumey USC","body":null,"created":"1469477558","gmt_created":"2016-07-25 20:12:38","changed":"1475895353","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:53","alt":"Christopher Toumey USC","file":{"fid":"206598","name":"toumey_christopher2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/toumey_christopher2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/toumey_christopher2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60930,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/toumey_christopher2.jpg?itok=JwPMmiwq"}}},"media_ids":["555251"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"147521","name":"HSOC"},{"id":"166849","name":"HSOC Blog"},{"id":"166958","name":"speakers and events"},{"id":"166865","name":"speakers series"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Einfo@hsoc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}