Science as Practice and Culture

Published by University of Chicago Press 1992

Science as Practice and Culture

Edited by: Andrew Pickering

https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226668208

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About this book

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice—the work of doing science—and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on.

Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into two parts. In part I, the contributors map out a coherent set of perspectives on scientific practice and culture, and relate their analyses to central topics in the philosophy of science such as realism, relativism, and incommensurability. The essays in part II seek to delineate the study of science as practice in arguments across its borders with the sociology of scientific knowledge, social epistemology, and reflexive ethnography.

Author / Editor information

Andrew Pickering is professor in the Department of Sociology and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. From Science as Knowledge to Science as Practice Andrew Pickering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1. POSITIONS
2. The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences Ian Hacking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Putting Agency Back into Experiment David Gooding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science Karin Knorr Cetina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Constructing Quaternions: On the Analysis of Conceptual Practice Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and "Translation" Joan H. Fujimura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
PART 2. ARGUMENTS
7. Extending Wittgenstein: The Pivotal Move from Epistemology to the Sociology of Science Michael Lynch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
8. Left and Right Wittgensteinians David Bloor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
9. From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A Reply to Bloor's "Left and Right Wittgensteinians" Michael Lynch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
10. Epistemological Chicken H. M. Collins and Steven Yearley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
11. Some Remarks about Positionism: A Reply to Collins and Yearley Steve Woolgar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
12. Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley Michel Callan and Bruno Latour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
13. Journey Into Space H. M. Collins and Steven Yearley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
14. Social Epistemology and the Research Agenda of Science Studies Steve Fuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
15. Border Crossings: Narrative Strategies in Science Studies and among Physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan Sharon Traweek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469

Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 482
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- Other: 20 line drawings, 2 tables
Keywords: controversial; controversy; scientific; work; culture; cultural; academic; scholarly; research; history; historical; historian; philosophy; philosopher; philosophical; sociology; sociologist; anthropology; anthropologist; physical; biological; science; mathematics; analysis; realism; relativism; epistemology; ethnography; essay collection

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Published: November 15, 2010
ISBN: 9780226668208