The Manufacture of Knowledge
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The Manufacture of Knowledge

An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
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The Manufacture of Knowledge

An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science

About this book

The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked upon with the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these places are observed with the objective yet compassionate eye of the visitor from a quite other cultural milieu. There are many surprises that await us if we enter a laboratory in this frame of mind... This study is a realistic enterprise, an attempt to truly represent the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matters not of prejudgement but as matters of concern, Karin Knorr-Cetina has developed the first really positive challenge to the philosophy of science since the days of paradigms and internal definitions of meanings

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1. The Scientist as a Practical Reasoner: Introduction to a Constructivist and Contextual Theory of Knowledge
  8. Chapter 2. The Scientist as an Indexical Reasoner: The Contextuality and the Opportunism of Research
  9. Chapter 3. The Scientist as an Analogical Reasoner: A Principle of Orientation and a Critique of the Metaphor Theory of Innovation
  10. Chapter 4. The Scientist as a Socially Situated Reasoner: From Scientific Communities to Transscientific Fields
  11. Chapter 5. The Scientist as a Literary Reasoner, Or the Transformation of Laboratory Reason
  12. Chapter 6. The Scientist as a Symbolic Reasoner, Or "What do we Make of the Distinction Between the Natural and the Social Sciences?"
  13. Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Major Theses of the Book
  14. Appendix 1
  15. Appendix 2
  16. References
  17. Index of Names
  18. Index of Subjects