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#95 Inventing Temperature, Operational Coherence, Activist Realism and more with Cambridge philosopher of history and science Hasok Chang
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Aug 27, 2026 at 9:00 pm.
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Send a love message Philosopher of science Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge) joins Andrea Hiott to trace the through-line of his work — from Inventing Temperature (2004), through Is Water H₂O? (2012), to Realism for Realistic People (2022) — and to think together about what it means to treat knowledge as something we do rather than something we merely possess. The conversation begins with why Inventing Temperature has quietly become an inspiration for neuroscientists: it shows how a felt ...