The Disunity of science : boundaries, contexts, and power / edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump

Object Details

Author

Galison, Peter 1955-

Stump, David J

Contents

Introduction : the context of disunity / Peter Galison -- The disunities of the sciences / Ian Hacking -- Styles of reasoning, conceptual history, and the emergence of psychiatry / Arnold I. Davidson -- Metaphysical disorder and scientific disunity / John Dupré -- Computer simulations and the trading zone / Peter Galison -- The unity of science : Carnap, Neurath, and beyond / Richard Creath -- Talking metaphysical turkey about epistemological chicken, and the poop on pidgins / Steve Fuller -- From relativism to contingentism / Mario Biagioli -- Contextualizing the canon / Simon Schaffer -- Science made up : constructivist sociology of scientific knowledge / Arthur Fine -- From epistemology and metaphysics to concrete connections / David J. Stump -- The care of the self and blind variation : the disunity of two leading sciences / Karin Knorr Cetina -- The constitution of archaeological evidence : gender politics and science / Alison Wylie -- Otto Neurath : politics and the unity of science / Jordi Cat, Nancy Cartwright, and Hasok Chang -- The naturalized history museum / Timothy Lenoir and Cheryl Lynn Ross -- Beyond epistemic sovereignty / Joseph Rouse -- The dilemma of scientific subjectivity in postvital culture / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Modest witness : feminist diffractions in science studies / Donna J. Haraway -- Afterword : new directions in the philosophy of science studies / David J. Stump

1996

Type

Books

Physical description

xiv, 567 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Science--Philosophy

Science--Social aspects

Record ID

siris_sil_534290

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