Table of Contents
Preface
1 Empirical philosophy
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Making Paris visible
1.3 The path towards 'empirical philosophy'
1.4 The power of addition
2 Science studies
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
2.3 An anthropologist visits a laboratory
2.4 Anatomy of a scientific paper
2.5 Realism in and about science
3 Science and society
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Pasteurization of France: War and Peace of Microbes
3.3 The Pasteurization of France: Irreductions
3.4 Another turn after the social turn
3.5 The turn to ontology
4 Another social science
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Deploying what makes up the social
4.3 Deploying how the social is stabilized
4.4 Shifting focus
5 A philosophy for our time
5.1 Introduction
5.2 We have never been modern
5.3 The modern Constitution
5.4 Relationism
5.5 Cosmopolitics
6 A comparative anthropology of the Moderns
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A research protocol for a comparative anthropology
6.3 'Empirical philosophy' redefined
6.4 Inquiring 'modes of existence'
6.5 The modern experience: fifteen modes
6.6 Facing 'Gaia'
7 Bibliography
Index