The Prince and the Wolf Quotes

“Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.”
― Bruno Latour, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE: The Latour and Harman at the LSE

“The social sciences are obsessed by epistemological questioning in a way that no science, no real science is. You never have a chemistry class that starts with the methodology of chemistry; you start by doing chemistry. And the problem is that since the social sciences don’t know what it is to be scientific, because they know nothing about the real sciences, they imagine that they have to be listing endless numbers of criteria and precautions before doing anything. And they usually miss precisely what is interesting in natural sciences which is [LAUGHS] a laboratory situation and the experimental protocol!”
― Bruno Latour, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE: The Latour and Harman at the LSE

“What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it’s true) every morning.”
― Bruno Latour, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE: The Latour and Harman at the LSE

“And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite “time” being included in the title Being and Time”
― Bruno Latour, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE: The Latour and Harman at the LSE

“Nancy Cartwright here in this School has written the funniest paper on scientific method ever, by taking the average advice from all the books about scientific method, and they are extreme banalities”
― Bruno Latour, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE: The Latour and Harman at the LSE

“If, of course, to serial and redescription you add… how would I put it, punctual? …Or the key with which they maintain their subsistence. And in that sense serial redescription seems to be a very good definition for the social sciences as well as for philosophy. We accompany the task of the entities in their survival, so to speak, and their maintaining their subsistence in a very, very practical manner.”
― Bruno Latour, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE: The Latour and Harman at the LSE