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Science As Cultural Practice : Vol. I: Cultures and Politics of Research from the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wissenskultur und Gesellschaftlicher Wandel SeriesPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783050087092
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science As Cultural PracticeLOC classification:
  • Q174.8.S354 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy -- Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity -- The Humboldtian Gaze -- What's in a Line? -- Apollo's Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and In-dustrial Modernism -- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 -- The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences -- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering -- What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS -- The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck's 'Comparative Epistemology'* -- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi -- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices -- List of contributors -- Bibliography.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy -- Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity -- The Humboldtian Gaze -- What's in a Line? -- Apollo's Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and In-dustrial Modernism -- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 -- The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences -- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering -- What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS -- The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck's 'Comparative Epistemology'* -- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi -- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices -- List of contributors -- Bibliography.

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