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Engaging Science
- How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically
Engelsk Paperback
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Engaging Science
- How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically
Engelsk Paperback

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Summarizing this century''s major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather than knowledge.

Rouse first outlines the shared assumptions by ostensibly opposed interpretive stances toward science: scientific realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and postempiricist historical rationalism. He then advances cultural studies as an alternative approach, one that understands the sciences as ongoing patterns of situated activity whose material setting is part of practice. Cultural studies of science, the
author suggests, take seriously their own participation in and engagement with the culture of science, rejecting the purported detachment of earlier philosophical or sociological standpoints. Rather, such studies offer specific, critical discussions of how and why science matters, and to whom, and how opportunites for meaningful understanding and action are transformed by scientific practices.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780801482892
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0801482895
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 feb 1996
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 1996
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge