title: Shaping biomedical objects across history and philosophy:a conversation with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
abstract: 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".
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: García-Sancho
authors.forename: Matiana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: González-Silva
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jesús Santesmases
authors.forename: Hans-Jörg
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Rheinberger
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000266:history*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D019359:Knowledge; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*