An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Tamás Demeter (Visiting Research Fellowship 2021; Corvinus University of Budapest):
Two Edinburgh Programmes for Socializing Knowledge
In this presentation I attempt to substantiate David Bloor’s characterization of David Hume as a ‘famous Edinburgh historian and sociologist’. I will offer two approaches. First, drawing on Miranda Fricker’s distinction between ‘abstracted’ and ‘situated social conception’ of epistemic subjects, I argue that from Hume’s abstracted conception one can excavate a set of methodological commitments that constitute the core of the ‘strong programme’ in the sociology of scientific knowledge. Secondly, I show the congruences and continuities between Hume’s social genealogy and Bloor’s sociology of mathematical knowledge. In conclusion I will suggest that while the Humean sympathy of the strong programme is clear, its Humean roots run deeper than it has been acknowledged.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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This talk will be delivered in IASH, so a very small number of seats will be available in the Seminar Room for Fellows only, on a first-come, first-served basis.