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Science as Cultural Practice
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Contents 5
  3. Introduction 7
  4. Part I: Before 1900
  5. Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy 13
  6. Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity 31
  7. The Humboldtian Gaze 45
  8. What’s in a Line? 61
  9. Apollo’s Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism 103
  10. Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 121
  11. Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes
  12. The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences 141
  13. Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering 153
  14. What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS 163
  15. The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck’s ‘Comparative Epistemology’ 183
  16. Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi 201
  17. Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices 217
  18. List of contributors 241
  19. Bibliography 243
https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050087092.241

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Contents 5
  3. Introduction 7
  4. Part I: Before 1900
  5. Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy 13
  6. Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity 31
  7. The Humboldtian Gaze 45
  8. What’s in a Line? 61
  9. Apollo’s Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism 103
  10. Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 121
  11. Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes
  12. The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences 141
  13. Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering 153
  14. What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS 163
  15. The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck’s ‘Comparative Epistemology’ 183
  16. Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi 201
  17. Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices 217
  18. List of contributors 241
  19. Bibliography 243
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