TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pickering,Andrew
TI  - The mangle of practice: time, agency, and science 
SN  - 9780226668253 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Q175 .P522 1995eb
U1  - 501 22
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Philosophy & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Natuurwetenschappen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Wetenschapsbeoefening
KW  - ram
KW  - Philosophie des sciences
KW  - Wissenschaftsphilosophie
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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