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Pickering, Andrew.
The mangle of practice
[electronic resource] :
time, agency, and science /
Andrew Pickering.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
c1995.
1 online resource (281 p.) :
ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-273) and index.
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.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Science
Philosophy.
Science
Social aspects.
Philosophy.
Science.
Social aspects.
Sciences
Philosophie.
Sciences
Aspect social.
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Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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Wetenschapsbeoefening.
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Sciences
Aspect social.
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Philosophie des sciences.
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Wissenschaftsphilosophie.
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Electronic books.
Print version:
Pickering, Andrew.
Mangle of practice.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1995
0226668029
(DLC) 94044546
(OCoLC)31740250
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