The mangle of practice: time, agency, and science
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Beteilige Person: Pickering, Andrew 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press [1995]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index
Preface; 1. The Mangle of Practice; 1.1 Science as Practice and Culture; 1.2 Representation and Performativity; 1.3 Agency and Emergence; 1.4 The Mangle of Practice; 1.5 More on the Mangle; Part One: Instantiations; 2. Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber; 3. Facts: The Hunting of the Quark; 4. Concepts: Constructing Quaternions; 5. Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools; Part Two: Articulations; 6. Living in the Material World; 7. Through the Mangle; References; Index
This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors--social, technological, conceptual, and natural--that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, discipli
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ISBN:9780226668253
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