Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 281 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780226668253
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0226668258
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 0-226-66802-9
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 0-226-66803-7
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-226-66803-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
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General works
Keywords:
Naturwissenschaften
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Philosophie
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Wissenschaftsphilosophie
URL:
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Author information:
Pickering, Andrew 1948-
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