Omar W. Nasim

Omar W. Nasim did his B.A. (hons.) in Philosophy from the University of Manitoba, and then a PhD in 2007 from the University of Toronto at the department of Philosophy (with Alasdair Urquhart and Ian Hacking). Between 2005-2006 Nasim was a Fellow of the DAAD Graduate Exchange Program at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His first book was published in 2008 and is entitled, Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World, Palgrave MacMillan Press. In this book Nasim examines the novel application of constructive logical techniques to the problem of the external world, perception and seeing, notions which were usually accounted for, instead, by some form of psychological construction at the end of the 19th century. Beginning in 2007, Nasim started as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the project _Knowledge in the Making_ (Wissen im Entwurf: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren des Forschung) first at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2007-2008), and then continued with the same fellowship and project at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) (2008-2009). In this project, entitled _Constructing the Heavens: Drawings of Nebulae in Victorian Science_, Nasim continued to pursue his interests in construction, observation and theories of perception, but with a special focus on scientific observation’s relationship to the act of drawing and note-taking in nebular astronomy. Omar Nasim is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Chair for Science Studies (ETH- Zürich) and a Member of the NFS Bildkritik "Eikones" (Universität Basel).


Publications


Report on the International Conference «What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?»

In: The Reasoner. Volume 2, No. 9.
September 2008

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Tracing the Nebulous

In: Wissen im Entwurf Bd. 3
Diaphanes, Zürich & Berlin, in Vorbereitung

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Observation, Working-Images, and Procedure: the «Great Spiral» in Lord Rosse's Astronomical Record Books and Beyond

In: British Journal for the History of Science,
43:3 2010

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The ‘Landmark’ and ‘Groundwork’ of Stars: John Herschel, Photography and the Drawing of Nebulae

In: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Part A,

2011

Nasim, O. and Krauthausen, K.

Notieren, Skizzieren: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren des Entwurfs

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Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich and Berlin, 2010

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Zeichnen als Mittel der »Familiarization« zur Erkundung der Nebel im Lord Rosse-Projekt

In: Notieren, Skizzieren: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren des Entwurfs
Nasim, O. and Krauthausen, K.
Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich and Berlin, 2010

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interview mit hans-jörg rheinberger papierpraktiken im labor

In: Notieren, Skizzieren: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren des Entwurfs
Nasim, O. and Krauthausen, K.
Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich and Berlin, 2010

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Rezension of Gavin Parkinson's surrealism, Art and Modern Science

In: Nuncius 24
Nuncius, 2009, 244-246

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On Seeing an Image of a Spiral Nebula: From Whewell to Flammarion

In: Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science,
2009

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Explaining G.F. Stout's Reaction to Russell's «On Denoting»

In: Russell vs. Meinong: the Legacy of «On Denoting»
Griffin N., Jacquette D. (Hg.)
Routledge Press, London, 2009, 101-112

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Observations, Descriptions, and Drawings of Nebulae: A Sketch

In: Max Planck Institute for History of Science Pre-Print Series No. 345
Berlin, 2008

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Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophiers: Constructing the World

In: History of Analytic Philosophy Series,
2008

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Beobachtungen mit der Hand: Astronomische Nebelskizzen im 19. Jahrhundert. Daten sichern: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren der Aufzeichnung

In: Wissen im Entwurf Bd. 1
Hoffmann C. (Hg.)
Diaphanes Verlag, Zürich & Berlin, 2008, 21-46

Nasim O.

Report on «What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?»

In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Forschungseinrichtungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Nr. 187,
16.09.2008


Dr. Omar W. Nasim
eikones NFS Bildkritik
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