RT Article
T1 Testing Latour's app: a user's guide
JF Zygon
VO 49
IS 4
SP 890
OP 903
A1 Bigliardi, Stefano
LA English
PB Joint Publ. Board of Zygon through Blackwell, Oxford
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1632611562
AB I reconstruct Bruno Latour's ideas about science and religion and compare them to Ian G. Barbour's and Mikael Stenmark's models, as well as to the discussion of technology and religion developed by John C. Caiazza and Antje Jackelén. I show how using “Latour's App” enlightens some aspects of said models which Barbour and Stenmark themselves were seemingly struggling with, and that Caiazza's and Jackelén's views can be reconciled despite their apparent opposition. The result of such tests is an overall assessment of Latour's proposal. I argue that, under the disguise of a flamboyant and original language, Latour's method is not that distant from those of the other authors analyzed here, and that his discussion might conceal some unwelcome philosophical shortcomings.
DO 10.1111/zygo.12129