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My name is Sean Silver.\u00a0 I’m a scholar of the long eighteenth century (ca. 1650-1800), in Britain and Europe, with interests in material culture, the history of science, cognition, and craft practices. \u00a0A CV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I teach courses in literature, museum studies, and the digital humanities at Rutgers University<\/a>.\u00a0 Before joining the academy, I was what they call a “joiner,” a maker of cabinets and other furniture.\u00a0 My last project was The Mind Is a Collection<\/a>, a born-digital museum of eighteenth-century cognitive models.\u00a0 My current project, the Motley Emblem, combines my interests in artisanal craft and eighteenth-century literary history in a different way, recovering the global-sized practices embedded in one, vanishingly small instance of an art.<\/p>\n

Visit my Curator’s page<\/a> at The Mind Is a Museum<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Mind Is a Collection<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).<\/a><\/p>\n

Recipient of the Oscar Kenshur Prize, 2016.<\/div>\n
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What precedes accidental discovery?<\/h4>\n
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“The Prehistory of Serendipity: Bacon to Walpole,” _Isis_ 106.2 (2015): 235-56.<\/a><\/p>\n

This piece, and a related\u00a0interview<\/a>,\u00a0have been generously reviewed by\u00a0Jeroen Bouterse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How is flavor historical?<\/h4>\n
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\u201cLocke\u2019s Pineapple and the History of Taste.\u201d The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 49.1 (2008): 43-65. <\/a><\/p>\n

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When talk becomes serious– or conversations are struck dead…<\/h4>\n
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\u201cPale Fire and Johnson\u2019s Cat: The Anecdote in Polite Conversation.\u201d Criticism 53.2 (2011): 243-66.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The literary origins of game theoretical analysis<\/h4>\n
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\u201cThe Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory.\u201d Connotations 19.1-3 (2010): 203-228.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cVisiting Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole\u2019s Gothic Historiography.\u201d Eighteenth-Century Fiction 21.4 (2009): 535-564.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What kind of stories might a coin tell?<\/h4>\n
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“John Evelyn and Numismata: Material History and Autobiography,”\u00a0Word and Image<\/em>\u00a031.3 (2015): 331-42.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How do we think with instruments?<\/h4>\n
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Sean Silver, “Hooke, Latour, and the History of Extended Cognition,”\u00a0The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation<\/em>\u00a057.2 (2016): 197-216.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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