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Helene Scott
@hscottfordsmand.bsky.social
Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)
@anatoliikozlov.bsky.social taught me this: no better way to disrupt academic stiffness than bringing 🎈into the conversation.
Pre-action shots from the beautiful @britishacademy.bsky.social before we forgot about our phones in all the excitement of moving and talking
#researchculture #sts #ECR
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Finally, Richard Long’s Rock installations (~1980s). On making traces in the real world as an art (and philosophical?) form - and how we display this after the fact? On making the ordinary noticeable by organisation and classification. And on stones as nature, ressource and symbol.
September 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Second: Cildo Meireles’ Babel (2001). On how we tell the history of technology, on noise and ways of attending to sound, on the transition from a technology of resistance to one of state communication, and on the return of chaos as the return of the need for households to have transiter radios.
September 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
First work: Rothko’s black on maroon (1958). On how the quiet and unsettling can call us to connect. On the uncomfortable of emergent objects and on restaurant, museums and universities as ambiguous places between consumption and contemplation #sts
September 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also worth noting that @msuarez.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the same volume on *Inference and Negative Analogy* – and broken bones, of course 🦴.
#philsci
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice
Mary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy...
link.springer.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
👀 🙌 can’t wait
July 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I wanted to pass this on to a few people, but the link takes me to "Business development manager - Corporate Partnership", and I as much as I think STS is a versatile field, I don't think those are quite the same profiles.
Could you send the link in a message or email so I can spread the word? 🙌
June 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM