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Title: | The fear of simulation: Scientific authority in late 19th-century French disputes over hypnotism | Contributor(s): | Hajek, Kim (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1177/0073275315580959 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19346 | Abstract: | This article interrogates the way/s in which rival schools studying hypnotism in late 19th-century France framed what counts as valid evidence for the purposes of science. Concern over the scientific reality of results is particularly situated in the notion of simulation (the faking of results); the respective approaches to simulation of the Salpetriere and Nancy schools are analysed through close reading of key texts: Binet and Fere for the Salpetriere, and Bernheim for Nancy. The article reveals a striking divergence between their scientific frames, which helps account for the bitterness of the schools' disputes. It then explores Bernheim's construction of scientific authority in more detail, for insights into the messiness entailed by theorizing hypnotism in psychical terms, while also attempting to retain scientific legitimacy. Indicative of this messiness, it is argued, is the way in which Bernheim's (apparently inconsistent) approach draws on multiple epistemic frames. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | History of Science, 53(3), p. 237-263 | Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1753-8564 0073-2753 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) 220206 History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430308 European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) 500204 History and philosophy of science 500317 Philosophy of science (excl. history and philosophy of specific fields) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology 950504 Understanding Europe's Past 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130704 Understanding Europe’s past 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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