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What is interepistemic translation?
Robinson, DouglasThis article seeks to define interepistemic translation by two different routes. The first is etiological: how the coining of the term emerged out of the author’s struggles with the problems of bringing three essays from three different epistemic systems—translation, medicine, and the humanities—into rough interconnectivity. The second adopts and adapts Itamar Even-Zohar’s eight hypotheses for ‘transfer theory’...
The communality of interepistemic translation: Charles Sanders Peirce and Thoma...
Robinson, DouglasThis paper explores interepistemic translation as only secondarily taking place between epistemic systems—primarily between what the historian, philosopher, and sociologist of science Thomas S. Kuhn calls ‘epistemological communities.’ In the 1969 Postscript to his 1970 second edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn explores the specifically translational quality of attempts among those splinter...
Visions on high-speed trains: a methodological analysis
Moretto, Susana Martins; Moniz, António; Robinson, DouglasBased on the report for the unit “Foresight Analysis Methods” of the PhD program on Technology Assessment in 2013. This unit was supervised by Prof. António Moniz. The paper had meanwhile contributions from the supervisor and Dr. Douglas Robinson.; Future Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) has been visible in railway planning since 2001. Over a dozen reports have been produced in the past thirteen years, the ma...