Intersecting Processes

complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & society

October 12, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Imagination and the psychology of agents (as seen or hidden in social studies of science)

I would affirm that all human activity is imaginative, that is, the result of a labor process that grows out of the laborer’s imagination. Agents assess, not necessarily explicitly, the practical constraints and facilitations of possible actions in advance of … Continue reading

September 7, 2010
by peter.taylor
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The relationship between interpretation in/of science and change

‘Gessen’s genetic counselors recommended an oophorectomy.  But Gessen balked… Our culture doesn’t yet have the infrastructure to handle the consequences of the recent revolution in genetic testing.  But we’ll need it…’ Review of Gessen (2008), Blood Matters, in International Herald … Continue reading

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