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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

Epple, Moritz, 1960- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Zittel, Claus, 1965- [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2014 [©2010.]

1 online resource (283 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-3-05-008709-2

978-3-05-004407-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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AK 18000      Ähnliche Literatur

306.45

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LOC-SH: Science--Philosophy--History

Science ; Philosophy ; History ; Electronic books

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.