The Fate of Knowledge /

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Helen Longino seeks to break the current deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science--academic battles founded on disagreement about the role of social forces in constructing scientific knowledge. While many philosophers of science downplay social forces,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Longino, Helen E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Épistemologie.
Cognition.
Sociologie des sciences.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Kennissociologie.
Wissenssoziologie
Erkenntnistheorie
Knowledge, Sociology of.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
sociology of knowledge.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Rational-Social Dichotomy
  • Taking Social Studies of Science Seriously
  • The Philosophers Respond
  • Disassembling the Rational-Social Dichotomy
  • Socializing Cognition
  • Socializing Knowledge
  • Clarifications and Responses
  • Pluralism and Local Epistemologies.

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