Science as Cultural Practice : : Vol. I: Cultures and Politics of Research from the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes / / ed. by Moritz Epple, Claus Zittel.
This volume represents a collection of studies in cultural history and theory of science from the early modern era to the present. The essays are linked by the conviction that one of the most significant developments in recent scientific historiography consists in its insistence that the relations b...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter (A), , [2014] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Before 1900
- Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy
- Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity
- The Humboldtian Gaze
- What’s in a Line?
- Apollo’s Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism
- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900
- Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes
- The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences
- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering
- What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS
- The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck’s ‘Comparative Epistemology’
- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi
- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices
- List of contributors
- Bibliography