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9780804725620

The Disunity of Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804725620

  • ISBN10:

    0804725624

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-04-01
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Summary

Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of unity, ranging from the pleas of condensed matter physicists for disciplinary autonomy all the way to discussions in the humanities and social sciences that involve local history, feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, scientific relativism and realism, and social constructivism.
Many of these varied aspects of the debate over the disunity of science are reflected in the sixteen papers in this volume, which brings together a number of scholars studying science who otherwise have had little to say to each other: feminist theorists, philosophers of science, sociologists of science. Most of the contributors begin with the view that there is something local about scientific knowledge, and then try to explore where that leads.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction: The Context of Disunityp. 1
Boundaries
The Disunities of the Sciencesp. 37
Styles of Reasoning, Conceptual History, and the Emergence of Psychiatryp. 75
Metaphysical Disorder and Scientific Disunityp. 101
Computer Simulations and the Trading Zonep. 118
The Unity of Science: Carnap, Neurath, and Beyondp. 158
Talking Metaphysical Turkey About Epistemological Chicken, and the Poop on Pidginsp. 170
Contexts
From Relativism to Contingentismp. 189
Contextualizing the Canonp. 207
Science Made Up: Constructivist Sociology of Scientific Knowledgep. 231
From Epistemology and Metaphysics to Concrete Connectionsp. 255
The Care of the Self and Blind Variation: The Disunity of Two Leading Sciencesp. 287
The Constitution of Archaeological Evidence: Gender Politics and Sciencep. 311
Power
Otto Neurath: Politics and the Unity of Sciencep. 347
The Naturalized History Museump. 370
Beyond Epistemic Sovereigntyp. 398
The Dilemma of Scientific Subjectivity in Postvital Culturep. 417
Modest Witness: Feminist Diffractions in Science Studiesp. 428
Afterword: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science Studiesp. 443
Notesp. 453
Select Bibliographyp. 527
Indexp. 537
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