The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power (Writing Science)

Galison, Peter; Stump, David J.

ISBN 10: 0804724369 / ISBN 13: 9780804724364

Editore: Stanford University Press (edition 1), 1996

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• Titolo: The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power (Writing Science)
• Editore: Stanford University Press (edition 1)
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804724369
• ISBN 13: 9780804724364
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Riassunto

Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of unity, ranging from the please of condensed matter physicists for disciplinary autonomy all the way to discussions in the humanities and social sciences that involve local history, feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, scientific relativism and realism, and social constructivism. Many of these varied aspects of the debate over the disunity of science are reflected in this volume, which brings together a number of scholars studying science who otherwise have had little to say to each other: feminist theorists, philosophers of science, sociologists of science.

How does the context of discover shape knowledge? What are the philosophical consequences of a disunified science? Does, for example, an antirealism, a realism, or an arealism become defensible within a picture of local scientific knowledge? What politics lies behind and follows from a picture of the world of science more like a quilt than a pyramid? Who gains and loses if representation of science has standards that vary from place to place, field to field, and practitioner to practitioner.

Informazioni sugli autori

Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is the editor, with Bruce Hevly, of Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. David J. Stump is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco.

Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is the editor, with Bruce Hevly, of Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research.David J. Stump is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco.