| 英文摘要 |
For my session of the Measurement Reading Group, I have chosen Joel Faflak’s introduction to Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution (2017) and Gillian Beer’s chapter, “Plants, Analogy, and Perfection: Loose and Strict Analogies” included in the book. Situated within the larger inquiry framework on the me-thod of counting in the philosophy of science and sociology of science, and on temperature, the metric system, the microscope, the meaning of precision, in-surance policies, the measuring of time, risk, and happiness, my topic appears an odd one out: for the essays included in Marking Time do not “measure” time with anything close to mathematical formula. But I would argue that the histori-cal account of how we think about the non-human beings affects how we cali-brate our position in the environment that we share with nature. |
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