Science as Practice and Culture
Andrew Pickering (ed.)
University of Chicago Press (1992)
Abstract
Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into two parts. In part I, the contributors map out a coherent set of perspectives on scientific practice and culture, and relate their analyses to central topics in the philosophy of science such as realism, relativism, and incommensurability. The essays in part II seek to delineate the study of science as practice in arguments across its borders with the sociology of scientific knowledge, social epistemology, and reflexive ethnography.Author's Profile
Call number
Q175.5.S3495 1992
ISBN(s)
0226668010 9780226668017 0226668002 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Chapters
Don't throw the baby out with the bath school! A reply to Collins and Yearley.Michel Callon & Bruno Latour
The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science'.Karin Knorr Cetina
Extending Wittgenstein: The pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science.Michael Lynch
From the 'will to theory 'to the discursive collage: a reply to Bloor's' Left and right Wittgensteinians'.Michael Lynch
Constructing quaternions: on the analysis of conceptual practice.Andrew Pickering & Adam Stephanides
Statistical language, statistical truth and statistical reason: the self-authenticictation of a style of scientific reasoning.A. Pickering
Border crossings: narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan.Sharon Traweek
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