| Description |
xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ; v. 3
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Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the social dimensions of science / Ernan McMullin -- Peirce on the social and historical dimensions of science / C.F. Delaney -- The origins of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge / Fritz Ringer -- Social thought and social action / Martin Hollis -- Good science as bad history : from order of knowing to order of being / Thomas Nickles -- Statistical language, statistical truth and statistical reason : the self-authentification of a style of scientific reasoning / Ian Hacking -- Practical reason and the construction of knowledge : the lifeworld of Haber-Bosch / Timothy Lenoir -- Essential tensions-- phase two : feminist, philosophical, and social studies of science / Helen E. Longino -- The ballad of Pons and Fleischmann : experiment and narrative in the (un)making of cold fusion / Thomas F. Gieryn -- Authority, deference, and the role of individual reason / Philip Kitcher -- One more turn after the social turn / Bruno Latour. |
| Subject |
Science -- Social aspects -- History.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Science -- Philosophy -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Wetenschapssociologie. |
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Natuurwetenschappen. |
| Added Author |
McMullin, Ernan, 1924-2011.
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| ISBN |
0268017417 |
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