Science as Practice and Culture

✍ Scribed by Andrew Pickering (Ed.)

Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 484
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
From Science as Knowledge to Science as Practice......Page 10
Part 1: Positions
......Page 36
The Self-vindication of the Laboratory Sciences......Page 38
Putting Agency Back into Experiment......Page 74
The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science......Page 122
Constructing Quaternions: On the Analysis of Conceptual Practice......Page 148
Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and "Translation"......Page 177
Part 2: Arguments
......Page 222
Extending Wittgenstein: The Pivotal Move from Epistemology to the Sociology of Science......Page 224
Left and Right Wittgensteinians......Page 275
From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A Reply to Bloor's "Left and Right Wittgensteinians"......Page 292
Epistemological Chicken......Page 310
Some Remarks About Positionism: A Reply to Collins and Yearley......Page 336
Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley......Page 352
Journey into Space......Page 378
Social Epistemology and the Research Agenda of Science Studies......Page 399
Border Crossings: Narrative Strategies in Science Studies and among Physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan......Page 438
Contributors......Page 476
Index......Page 478

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