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Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India

Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India

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  • Deepanwita Dasgupta
  • University of Pittsburgh Press
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Science is usually known by its most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Periphery draws our attention to unknown figures in science--those who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its practices. Researchers in early twentieth-century colonial India, for example, have made significant contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge and have provided science with new breakthroughs and novel ideas, but to little acclaim. As Deepanwita Dasgupta argues, sometimes the best ideas in science are born from difficult and resource-poor conditions. In this study, she turns our attention to these peripheral actors, shedding new light on how scientific creativity operates in lesser-known, marginalized contexts, and how the work of self-trained researchers, though largely ignored, has contributed to important conceptual shifts. Her book presents a new philosophical framework for understanding this peripheral creativity in science through the lens of trading zones--where knowledge is exchanged between two unequal communities--and explores the implications for the future diversity of transnational science.
Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India

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Deepanwita Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at El Paso and obtained her Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, 2010, with a focus on philosophy of science, especially the dynamics of mental modeling implicit in scientific reasoning. 

Professor Dasgupta holds another Ph.D. in philosophy of language from Jadavpur University, India. Dasgupta joined the Philosophy Department at UTEP in Fall 2015. 

Her research interests are in the philosophy of science and history of science, with a particular focus on the non-Western contexts of scientific practice, especially the Indian sub-continent at the turn of the 20th century. 

Her 2021 book Creativity from the Periphery, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, presents the story of a nascent physics community in India during 1920-40 by using a cognitive-philosophical framework. To explain those contexts, Dasgupta proposes the idea of peripheral creativity, i.e., cases in which a hard constraint turns out to be a great resource for creativity, giving rise to new lines of thought. 

This reasoning allows her to look outside the contexts of the privileged scientific communities in Europe and North America, and look into various modest and frugal practices, and see them also as examples of scientific reasoning. With this idea, she is now working on a second book manuscript, which formulates a vision for the 21st-century science both as a cognitively diverse as well as a wisdom-producing practice. A part of this project is to launch a website titled Science in the 21st Century, which will feature short articles, columns, future reflections as well as potential ideas for research drawn from both the sciences and the humanities. 

Dasgupta visited the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway in summer 2019, also presented her work at the Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, and Cardiff University, UK. At UTEP, she regularly teaches courses on philosophy of science, science and ethics, and seeks to promote a conversational interface between the humanities and the sciences.

 

 

Source: The University of Texas at El Paso 

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