Keynote: Leonelli – Rethinking HPS through digital studies – DS² 2021
Channel: CEFISES at UCLouvain
Date: 2021-03-19

The talk  “Rethinking HPS through digital studies” by Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter), recorded at the DS² 2021 online conference, March 18, 2021.


This talk will start with a reflection on lessons learnt from studying the impact of digital technologies and related methods on the natural sciences, and particularly data-intensive biology, biomedicine, crop and environmental science, as well as recent research on the pandemic crisis. It will then consider what implications such lessons have for the history and philosophy of science (HPS). Such lessons range from HPS conceptions of accountability to the choice of methods and instruments, the ways in which evidence is produced and displayed, the means chosen to communicate and validate research, and who is engaged as prospective collaborator or public for HPS work.

Prof. Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, and the Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis) at the University of Exeter.