Quick notes on Philosophers, thinkers

Alexander von Humboldt

• The 19th century German explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) believed that nature was a harmonious whole. 
• He believed that all parts of nature were connected, and that affecting one part would affect others. 
• He believed that science and art were inseparable, and that the history of science could not be separated from the history of art. 
• He believed that everything should be measured with the most modern instruments and techniques. This quantitative methodology became known as Humboldtian science. 
• He believed that the destruction of nature would lead to the destruction of culture. 

Donna Haraway

• Haraway’s more recent work has turned to human-animal relations and the climate crisis. 
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth
• Donna Haraway is a feminist scholar and cultural critic known for her work in science and technology studies, feminist theory, and animal studies. Her work explores the relationships between humans and other species, and how these relationships are shaped by culture and politics. 

Bruno Latour

• http://www.bruno-latour.fr/
• Actor-network theory: His theory that everything exists in a network of interactive relationships, including people, technology, and objects. 

Jane Bennett

• Jane Bennett is primarily known as a prominent political theorist and philosopher, specializing in the field of environmental humanities, where her work often explores the relationship between humans and "things" through a concept she calls "vital materialism"; her most recognized book is "Vibrant Matter" which explores these ideas further. 

Charles Darwin

• Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he advanced a view of the development of life on earth that profoundly shaped nearly all biological and much philosophical thought which followed.
• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/charles-darwin-most-famous-biologist.html
• Visited NZ on the HMS Beagle.

Alfred Wallace

• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a man of many talents - an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin.

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-was-alfred-russel-wallace.html