Science as Practice and Culture

482 pages
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20 line drawings, 2 tables
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6 x 9
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© 1992
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. From Science as Knowledge to Science as Practice
Andrew Pickering
Part 1 - Positions
2. The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences
Ian Hacking
3. Putting Agency Back into Experiment
David Gooding
4. The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science
Karin Knorr Cetina
5. Constructing Quaternions: On the Analysis of Conceptual Practice
Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides
6. Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and "Translation"
Joan H. Fujimura
Part 2 - Arguments
7. Extending Wittgenstein: The Pivotal Move from Epistemology to the Sociology of Science
Michael Lynch
8. Left and Right Wittgensteinians
David Bloor
9. From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A Reply to Bloor’s "Left and Right Wittgensteinians"
Michael Lynch
10. Epistemological Chicken
H. M. Collins and Steven Yearley
11. Some Remarks About Positionism: A Reply to Collins and Yearley
Steve Woolgar
12. Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley
Michel Callon and Bruno Latour
13. Journey into Space
H. M. Collins and Steven Yearley
14. Social Epistemology and the Research Agenda of Science Studies
Steve Fuller
15. Border Crossings: Narrative Strategies in Science Studies and among Physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Sharon Traweek
Contributors
Index
1. From Science as Knowledge to Science as Practice
Andrew Pickering
Part 1 - Positions
2. The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences
Ian Hacking
3. Putting Agency Back into Experiment
David Gooding
4. The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science
Karin Knorr Cetina
5. Constructing Quaternions: On the Analysis of Conceptual Practice
Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides
6. Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and "Translation"
Joan H. Fujimura
Part 2 - Arguments
7. Extending Wittgenstein: The Pivotal Move from Epistemology to the Sociology of Science
Michael Lynch
8. Left and Right Wittgensteinians
David Bloor
9. From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A Reply to Bloor’s "Left and Right Wittgensteinians"
Michael Lynch
10. Epistemological Chicken
H. M. Collins and Steven Yearley
11. Some Remarks About Positionism: A Reply to Collins and Yearley
Steve Woolgar
12. Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley
Michel Callon and Bruno Latour
13. Journey into Space
H. M. Collins and Steven Yearley
14. Social Epistemology and the Research Agenda of Science Studies
Steve Fuller
15. Border Crossings: Narrative Strategies in Science Studies and among Physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Sharon Traweek
Contributors
Index
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