3. Putting Agency Back into Experiment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. From Science as Knowledge to Science as Practice 1
5. PART 1. POSITIONS
6. 2. The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences 29
7. 3. Putting Agency Back into Experiment 65
8. 4. The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory: On the Relationship between Experiment and Laboratory in Science 113
9. 5. Constructing Quaternions: On the Analysis of Conceptual Practice 139
10. 6. Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and "Translation" 168
11. PART 2. ARGUMENTS
12. 7. Extending Wittgenstein: The Pivotal Move from Epistemology to the Sociology of Science 215
13. 8. Left and Right Wittgensteinians 266
14. 9. From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A Reply to Bloor's "Left and Right Wittgensteinians" 283
15. 10. Epistemological Chicken 301
16. 11. Some Remarks about Positionism: A Reply to Collins and Yearley 327
17. 12. Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley 343
18. 13. Journey Into Space 369
19. 14. Social Epistemology and the Research Agenda of Science Studies 390
20. 15. Border Crossings: Narrative Strategies in Science Studies and among Physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan 429
21. Contributors 467
22. Index 469