Daiwie Fu

Daiwie Fu (Chinese: 傅大為; pinyin: Fù Dàwéi; Wade–Giles: Fu Ta-wei, birth month and year: 1953, Sep.)

is a Taiwanese academic, the founding editor in chief of the STS academic journal East Asian Science, Technology and Society, and a self-appointed radical intellectual. Former Distinguished Professor of the graduate institute of STS, now Emeritus Professor in National Yang-Ming Chao-Tong University. His research areas are: science and technology studies, gender and medicine in modern Taiwan, gender and science, East Asian STS, history and philosophy of science, and also history of Chinese science (mainly on biji, Mengxi Bitan and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty), while recently he intends to study the actions of contemporary radical intellectuals. He published papers widely in Chinese, English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. He published three academic books, a few books of social criticisms, and have founded several academic journals (including a radical journal, Taiwan: a Radical Quarterly in Social Studies) and several magazines in Taiwan. Ever since the lifting of Taiwan’s martial law, he had participated in some social movements and has engaged in social and gender criticisms, on and off. But he also had plumged into the university beauracracy/structure as dean of humanities and social sciences for some years. Now he is an emeritus professor, a senior citizen of Taiwan, and is still looking for the next stage of actions and researches after leaving from a university life for more than 30 years.


e-mail: dwfu@mx.nthu.edu.tw

Education

Teaching and University career
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Language and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1989-90.
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of History, SOAS, Univ. of London, 1994-95.
  • Visiting Fellow, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, and Univ. Paris 7, 2001, March-April.
  • Visiting Professor, EHESS, Paris, France, 2003, June-July..

Areas of research, social studies, engagement
  • Science and Technology Studies, Science, technology, and Society, and STS Studies of East Asia.
  • Positions, Identities, and Relationships between STS, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, and Sociology.
  • Cultural History of Chinese Science in China’s Middle Period (from Tang to Song), including biji Texts and especially Mengxi Bitan.
  • History of Chinese Science
  • History of Modern Medicine in Taiwan and its Gender/Sexuality Aspects.
  • Gender & Science, and Gender & Medicine.
  • Theories and Taiwan’s Practices of Translation.
  • History of postwar Taiwanese intellectuals.
  • Social and political criticisms after the lifting of Taiwan’s martial law.
  • Environmental, Covid-19, and Anti-Nuclear criticisms.

A brief books list of academic works and social criticisms
  • My current middle-range research project is to write a book to describe and understand the actions and ways of doing things of two radical intellectuals I admire: Chomsky and Foucault. I would then reflect upon, together with my own early experience as a radical scholar during the years after lifting the martial law, what could be constituted as a radical scholar in the contemporary world.

  • Translations, Blog:
   T.Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (with Cheng Shude, Wang daohuan)
   Blog: https://radical-note.blogspot.com/

Influenced

Yeh Hsin-yun(葉新雲), Li Chao(李喬), Edward, T. Ch’ien(錢新祖), T.Kuhn, N.Chomsky, M.Foucault, E.Keller,S.Shapin, D.MacKenzie

Selected research works

in four parts, for a full list, or the most recent 15 years-in here

a),philosophy of science, and other social studies of Taiwan
  1. 1986, Sep., "Problem Domain and Developmental Strategies──a Study on the Logic of Competition and Development of Scientific Programs", Ph. D Thesis, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. (Microfilms Inc., Account No. DA 058785. Ann Arbor, MI.)
  2. 1989, Jan, "The Dialectic of the History of Positivistic Science as a Discourse: From Enlightenment in the West to Yin Hai-Kuang in Taiwan", Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in SocialStudies, Vol.1, 4, pp.11-56
  3. 1992, Oct., 《異時空裡的知識追逐－科學史與科學哲學論文集》, 東大圖書, 台北。Book title translated as: Knowledge Pursuits in Heterogeneous Spaces and Times---papers in History and Philosophy of Science, Dong-Da Pub.co. Taipei.
  4. 1992., Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan, eds., Lin Cheng-Hung and Fu Daiwie (Kluwer Academic Publishers) Vol. 141 of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ed. by R. Cohen.
  5. 1994, “H2O 的一個不可共量史──重論「不可共量性」及其與意義理論之爭”(“A History of Incommensuability for ‘H2O’”)《第四屆美國文學與思想研討會論文選集》，哲學篇，中央研究院歐美所, pp. 95 - 122。
  6. 1995, Sep., “Higher Taxonomy and Higher Incommensurability” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 273 - 294.
  7. 1997, 「百朗森林裡的文字獵人──試讀台灣原住民的漢文書寫」收入《身份認同與公共文化》 ("Words Hunters in the Jungle of BAI-LANG--- A Reading on the Chinese Writings by Taiwan's aborigines", originally published in Con-Temporary magazine, and later published in Oxford Univ. Press HongKong) 陳清橋編，1997，牛津大學出版社。pp.385-412。
  8. 2021, “Kuhn in the humanities and social studies of science”, a General Introduction for the fourth edition of the Taiwanese translation of T.Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolution (1962), published by Yuan-Liou, Taipei.

b), Chinese history of science
  1. 1988, June, "A Study on the Historical Development and Transformation of ZHOU-BI Research Tradition", Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, new series 18, no.1, pp.1-41.
  2. 1991, May, "Why Did Liu Hui Fail to Derive the Volume of a Sphere?" Historica Mathematica, Vol. 18, pp. 212 - 238.
  3. 1993-4, Nov., “A Contextual and Taxonomic Study on the 'Divine Marvels' and 'Strange Occurrences' in Mengxi Bitan”, Chinese Science, No. 11, pp. 3 - 35.
  4. 1998, July, “On Crossing Taxonomies and Boundaries: A Critical Note on Comparative History of Science and Zhao Youqin’s ‘Optics’”, Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and History of Science, No. 8, (1996-1997), pp.103-127.
  5. 1999, “On Mengxi Bitan’s [夢溪筆談] World of Marginalities and ‘South-Pointing Needles’: Fragment Translation vs. Contextual Translation” De l’Un au Multiple. De la traduction du Chinois dans les langues Europeennes, edited by Viviane Alleton and Michael Lackner, pp.175-201, Editions de la Maison de Sciences de l’Homme.
  6. 2001, “Mengxi Bitan as an Example of Organization of Knowledge in Song Biji”, Ch.32.2, History of Science in China Volume, Encyclopedia for History of Science, sponsored by Enciclopedia Italiana and Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences. (Italian version: Storia Della Scienza, Vol.II, Sezione I, La Scienza in Cina, ch.32.2, pp.358-366.)
  7. 2001, “An Early Geomantic Theory and its Relation to Compass Deviation”, Ch.11.2, History of Science in China Volume, Encyclopedia for History of Science, sponsored by Enciclopedia Italiana and Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences. (Italian version: Storia Della Scienza, Vol.II, Sezione I, La Scienza in Cina, ch.11.2, pp.119-25.)
  8. 2007, “The Flourishing of Biji or Pen-Notes Texts and its Relations to History of Knowledge in Song China (960-1279)”, in a special issue “What did it mean to write an Encyclopedia in China?”, pp.103-130, Hors Serie, Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2007, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.
  9. 2010, March,「從文藝復興到新視野─中國宋代的科技與《夢溪筆談》」(From Renaissance to New Vision: On Science and Technology in Sung China and Mengxi Bitan)，《中國史新論──科技與中國社會分冊》，祝平一編，中研院史語所／聯經出版社。頁271-297.

c), gender and science, gender and medicine in modern Taiwan
  1. 1996, April, (與王秀雲合作)「台灣女性科學家的九零年代風貌──試析「科學／女性／社會脈絡」諸相關領域」(“Women Scientists in Taiwan and their Current Situations in Science,Gender, and Society”)，《台灣社會研究季刊》 no.22, pp.1-58。本論文為國科會「知識、權力、與女人」 NSC83-0301H-014-L2 研究計畫的部份報告。
  2. 1999, June,“融會在玉米田裡的「非男性」科學──關於「女性科學」的哲學論爭與新發展”(“A Feeling for Corn Field in Keller’s ‘Non-Masculine’ Science”)，《歐美研究》，第29卷第二期，pp.1-40. 中研院歐美研究所。
  3. 2005, Assembling the Asiastic New Body: Gender/Sexuality, Medicine, and Modern Taiwan (450 pages, Qun-Xue Publisher: Taipei). ** A Short Table of Content in the end of this file.
  4. 2006, “CS, VBAC, and an Ironic Past in Taiwan’s Obstetrics” in No.2, Gender and Sexuality, pp.25-41, CGS, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
  5. 2017，「『醫療化』論點的當代多元演化，與來自性別與社會研究的商榷」(Contemporary multiple evolutions of the ‘medicalization’ thesis and commentaries from gender and social studies of medicine)，《東亞醫療史：殖民、性別與現代性》聯經出版社。

d), science and technology studies, East Asian STS, genealogy of SSK/STS.
  1. 2007, “How far can East Asian STS go?”, position paper, 1st issue of EASTS (East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal), Vol.1, no.1, pp.1-14.
  2. 2009, “대만의 1세대 남녀 산부인과 의사: 식민지적 의료근대화와 젠더 구조” translated and revised from the SNUH symposium (2nd International Symposium: The First Generation of Native Doctors in East Asian Countries, Seoul National University Hospital) article “Two first-generation Obstetrics-Gyneocology doctors in Taiwan: Colonial Medical Modernity and Gender Structure”, 동아시아 1세대 의사들의 생애,pp.200-257.
  3. 2013, April, 「定位與多重越界：回首重看STS與科哲」(Positions and Multiple Boundary-Crossings ---A Reflection on the Relationship between STS and Philosophy of Science)，科技、醫療與社會，No.16. pp.49-102.
  4. 2021, April, 《STS的緣起與多重建構：橫看近代科學的一種編織與打造》(A Genealogical History of STS and Its Multiple Constructions: To Weave an Extensive Network for Gazing upon the Modern Sciences), National Taiwan University Press.

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