A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels
This monograph examines seven novels that tackle the theme of scientific misconduct, analyzing how they reflect integrity challenges in modern research. Through a philosophical lens, it encourages critical discourse on the complexities of misconduct, urging a reevaluation of integrity concepts amidst systemic issues in knowledge production.
Exploring the theme of water as a symbol of freedom and exploration, the book delves into the contrasting perspectives of figures like Darwin and Melville. It highlights Darwin's transformative ocean voyage, which led to groundbreaking ideas that shaped science and culture. The narrative also examines Moby-Dick's theological interpretations, viewing the whale as a biblical Leviathan and the ocean as a perpetual flood. Through Ishmael's narrative, the author presents multiple viewpoints, emphasizing the complexity of the whale's symbolism and the diversity of voices in the story.
Designed for philosophy students and early-stage researchers, this volume aims to enhance understanding and engagement with philosophical concepts. It provides essential tools and insights to help readers navigate complex ideas, fostering critical thinking and analytical skills. By addressing foundational theories and contemporary debates, the book serves as a comprehensive resource for those seeking to deepen their philosophical knowledge and research capabilities.
This book presents a psychoanalysis of technoscience. Basic concepts and methods developed by Freud, Jung, Bachelard and Lacan are applied to case histories (palaeoanthropology, classical conditioning, virology). Rather than by disinterested curiosity, technoscience is driven by desire, resistance and the will to control. Moreover, psychoanalysis focusses on primal scenes (Dubois' quest for the missing link, Pavlov's discovery of the conditioned reflex) and opts for comparing technoscience to "different scenes" provided by novels, so that Dubois's work is compared to missing link novels by Verne and London and Pavlov's experiments with Skinner's Walden Two, while virology is studied through the lens of viral fiction.