Political Epistemology

Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). He is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research endeavor "Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe" (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). Together with Jürgen Renn he authored the book Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti's Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585) (2019). His forthcoming books include the co-edited volume Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World: Gramscian Concepts for the History of Science (with Massimiliano Badino) and Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science (with Rodolfo Garau).

Chapter 1. Political Epistemology: Positioning Science Studies.- Chapter 2. The Logic of Science and Technology as a Developmental Tendency of Modernity.- Chapter 3. On Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: The Marxist Struggle for Cultural Hegemony and HPS for a 'Free Society'.- Chapter 4. Toward a Socio-Political History of Science: From Structures to Hegemonies.- Chapter 5. Hegemony and Science: Epistemological and Historiographical Perspectives.