| Description |
xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge history of science |
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Cambridge history of science.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Challenges to the Classical View of Science -- 1. An Outline of Constructivism. From Kuhn to the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. What's Social about Constructivism? -- 2. Identity and Discipline. The Making of a Social Identity. The Disciplinary Mold -- 3. The Place of Production. The Workshop of Nature. Beyond the Laboratory Walls -- 4. Speaking for Nature. The Open Hand. Stepping into the Circle -- 5. Interventions and Representations. Instruments and Objects. The Work of Representation -- 6. Culture and Construction. The Meanings of Culture. Regimes of Construction -- Coda: The Obligations of Narrative |
| Summary |
In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress. Golinski has written a sympathetic but critical survey of this exciting field of research, at a level that can be appreciated by students or anyone else who wants in introduction to contemporary thinking in the development of the sciences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index |
| Subject |
Constructivism (Philosophy)
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Science -- Historiography.
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Science -- History.
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| LC no. |
97024028 |
| ISBN |
0521444713 (alk. paper) |
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0521449138 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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