Lecture

13 Feb 2025 · 5.00 pm

Georg Toepfer: Tracing Beginnings. How Archives of Nature are Used in Origin Stories

Venue: University of Vechta, Driverstraße 22, 49377 Vechta

Research project(s): Aitiologies in the Reality Narratives of the Natural Sciences

Lecture as part of the conference Traces of the Anthropocene. How Archives Become Stories at the University of Vechta, 13–14 Feb 2025

The philosopher Georg Toepfer is co-coordinator of the program area Knowledge of Life and research team leader of the projects Diversity: Concepts, Paradigms, and History and Aitiologies in the Reality Narratives of the Natural Sciences: On the Epistemic Function of Origin (Re)Constructions.