Science as practice and culture/

Corporate Author: University of Chicago Press, The
Other Authors: Pickering, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.From science as knowledge to science as practice, 2.The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences, 3.Putting agency back into experiment, 4.The couch, the cathedral, and the laboratory:on the relationship between experiment and laboratory in science, 5 Constructing quatermions: on the analysis of conceptual practice, 6 Crafting science: standardized packages, boundary objects and "translation", 7 Extending wittgenstein: the pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science, 8 Left and right wittgensteinians, 9 From the "will to theory" to the discursive collage: A reply to bloor's "Left and right wittgensteinians", 10 Epistemological chicken, 11 Some remarks about positionism: a reply to Collins and Yerley, 12 Don't throw the baby out with the Bath School!, 13 Journey into space, 14 Social epistemology and the research agenda of science studies, 15 Border crossings: narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuda science city, Japan.