Contents
Preface .............................................................................................................................. 9
Moritz Epple, Annette Imhausen, and Falk Müller
Schwaches Wissen ........................................................................................................ 13
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
General Perspectives
The Theaetetus Problem: Some Remarks Concerning
a History of Weak Knowledge ................................................................................... 19
Moritz Epple
Science Research Regimes: From Strength to Weakness
Polycentric Regimes ..................................................................................................... 41
Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn
Poiesis in Action: Doing without Knowledge ......................................................... 61
Andrew Pickering
Historical Cases
On Certain Uncertainties in Ancient Astrology ...................................................... 85
Daryn Lehoux
A Little Old Lady Told Me: Appropriation of Weak Actors'
Knowledge in Graeco-Roman Pharmacology ....................................................... 109
Laurence Totelin
Metaphysics and the Principles of the Demonstrative Sciences:
Weak and Strong Knowledge in the Late Antique
Commentary Tradition .............................................................................................. 125
Orna Harari
Comment: Weak Knowledge in the History and Philosophy
of Ancient Science: Trajectories of Further Studies ............................................. 143
Annette Imhausen
Failure and Imperfections of Artisanal Knowledge in the
Early Modern Period .................................................................................................. 163
Sven Dupré
On Literary Knowledge: The Conceptual, the Figurative
and the Performative .................................................................................................. 179
Rivka Feldhay
Economy as if: On the Role of Fictions in Economics
in the 1920s .................................................................................................................. 211
Monika Wulz
Weak and Strong Knowledge in Industrial Research:
The Rise of the "Third" Physicist ............................................................................ 231
Falk Müller
Weak Knowledge and the Epic Theatre of Science:
Materials of the Pre-Conference Workshop .......................................................... 263
Nitzana Ben David; Corinna Dziudzia, Martin Herrnstadt;
Lukas Jäger; Natalie Levy, Linda Richter, and Sebastian Riebold
Climate and Environment
A Weaker Form of Knowledge? The Case of
Environmental Knowledge and Regulation ........................................................... 295
Dominique Pestre
Knowledge Production with Climate Models:
On the Power of a "Weak" Type of Knowledge .................................................. 321
Matthias Heymann
Partisanal Knowledge: On Hayek and Heretics
in Climate Science and Discourse ............................................................................ 351
Richard Staley
Medical Knowledge
The Weak and the Strong: Medical Knowledge and
Abolitionist Debates in the Late Eighteenth Century .......................................... 379
Suman Seth
Inflamed Spines and Anarchical Minds:
Dynamics of Medical Testimony on Nervous Shock
in the Late Nineteenth Century England .............................................................. 399
José Brunner
The Power of Weak Knowledge: Modernist Dissonances
in American Medicine ................................................................................................ 419
John Harley Warner
Negotiating Epistemic Hierarchies in Biomedicine:
The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine ................................................................... 449
Cornelius Borck
Comment: Weak Medical Knowledge ..................................................................... 483
Mitchell G. Ash
Authors ......................................................................................................................... 489
Index ............................................................................................................................. 493