person
also known as Faraday
English experimental scientist, introduced by Cameron McEwen to block a technological determinism the session was drifting toward: what the German idealists were thinking in the wake of Kant was also being worked out in Faraday's laboratory. Thought shapes technologies as much as technologies shape thought. New to him — dialogue 65.
Across the dialogues
65
Supplies the counter-example that keeps the session''s history two-way — the electricity experiments are read as the same thinking the idealists were doing, not as its cause
Philosophy and laboratory work are made two expressions of one thinking, which is the two-way correction to Bob's telegraph-driven periodization.
"what the German idealists were thinking in the wake of Kant, that kind of thinking was also expressed in people like Michael Faraday that were experimenting with electricity and figuring out its laws."
Connections
connects toHegel
Faraday's experimental work is placed alongside post-Kantian idealism as one thinking in two registers.