{"id":129,"date":"2015-09-07T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=129"},"modified":"2016-01-06T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:42:00","slug":"new-publication-from-cristina-chimisso-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Cristina Chimisso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Chimisso&#8217;s article, &#8216;Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem&#8217;s concept of scientific ideology&#8217;,\u00a0<em>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science\u00a0<\/em>has just been published online, and will be published in the hard-copy version of the journal this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of\u00a0\u2018scientific ideology\u2019. This concept had not played any role in his previous work, so why introduce it at all? This is the central question of my paper. Although it may seem a rather modest question, its answer in fact uncovers hidden tensions in the tradition of historical epistemology, in particular between its normative and descriptive aspects. The term ideology suggests the influence of Althusser\u2019s and Foucault\u2019s philosophies. However, I show the differences between Canguilhem\u2019s concept of scientific ideology and Althusser\u2019s and Foucault\u2019s respective concepts of ideology. I argue that Canguilhem was in fact attempting to solve long-standing problems in the <!--more-->tradition of historical epistemology, rather than following the lead of his younger colleagues. I argue that Canguilhem\u2019s\u00a0\u2018refurbishment without rejection\u2019\u00a0of Bachelard\u2019s epistemology, which the concept of scientific ideology was aimed to implement, was necessary to justify the historical narratives that Canguilhem had constructed in his own work as a historian of concepts. A strict acceptance of Bachelard\u2019s epistemology would have made it impossible to justify them. Canguilhem\u2019s concept of scientific ideology therefore served as a theoretical justification of his practice as a historian. I maintain that the concept of scientific ideology was needed to reconcile Bachelard\u2019s normative epistemology with Canguilhem\u2019s view of the history of science and its aims, which differed from Bachelard\u2019s more than it is generally acknowledged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Chimisso&#8217;s article, &#8216;Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem&#8217;s concept of scientific ideology&#8217;,\u00a0Studies in History and Philosophy of Science\u00a0has just been published online, and will be published in the hard-copy version of the journal this year. Abstract: In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of\u00a0\u2018scientific ideology\u2019. This concept had not played any role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications","tag-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}