Making natural knowledge : constructivism and the history of science
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Making natural knowledge : constructivism and the history of science
（Cambridge history of science）
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- : hard
- : pbk
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress. New topics have emerged in historical research, including: the identity of the scientist, the importance of the laboratory, the role of language and instruments, and the connections with other realms of culture and society. Golinski has written a sympathetic but critical survey of this exciting field of research, at a level that can be appreciated by students or anyone else who wants an introduction to contemporary thinking in the development of the sciences.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: challenges to the classical view of science
- 1. An outline of contructivism
- 2. Identity and discipline
- 3. The place of production
- 4. Speaking for nature
- 5. Interventions and representations
- 6. Culture and construction
- Bibliography.
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