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The mangle of practice [electronic resource] : time, agency, and science / Andrew Pickering.

By: Pickering, Andrew.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1995Description: 1 online resource (281 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780226668253 (electronic bk.); 0226668258 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Science -- Philosophy | Science -- Social aspects | Philosophy | Science | Social aspects | Sciences -- Philosophie | Sciences -- Aspect social | SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects | Natuurwetenschappen | Wetenschapsbeoefening | Sciences -- Aspect social | Philosophie des sciences | WissenschaftsphilosophieGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mangle of practice.DDC classification: 501 LOC classification: Q175 | .P522 1995ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-273) and index.

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.

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