Resumen de Shaping biomedical objects across history and philosophy: a conversation with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Miguel García Sancho, Matiana González Silva, María Jesús Santesmases Navarro de Palencia

• Historical epistemology, according to the historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, is a space through which «to take experimental laboratory work into the realm of philosophy».

  This key concept, together with the crucial events and challenges of his career, were discussed in a public conversation which took place on the occasion of Rheinberger�s retirement. By making sense of natural phenomena in the laboratory, the act of experimenting shapes the object;

  it is this shaping which became the core of Rheinberger�s own research across biology and philosophy into history. For his intellectual agenda, a history of the life sciences so constructed became «epistemologically demanding».