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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807755203321

Autore

Knorr-Cetina K (Karin)

Titolo

The manufacture of knowledge : an essay on the constructivist and contextual nature of science / / Karin D. Knorr-Cetina ; preface by Rom Harré

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Elmsford, New York : , : Pergamon Press, , 1981

©1981

ISBN

1-4832-8574-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies

Disciplina

306.45

Soggetti

Science - Methodology

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The Scientist as a Practical Reasoner: Introduction to a Constructivist and Contextual Theory of Knowledge; 1.1 Facts and Fabrications; 1.2 The Constructivist Interpretation I: Nature and the Laboratory; 1.3 The Constructivist Interpretation II: The ""Decision Ladenness"" of Fact-Fabrication; 1.4 The Laboratory: Context of Discovery or Context of Validation?; 1.5 The Contextuality of Laboratory Construction

1.6 Contextual Contingency as a Principle of Change1.7 The Constructivist Interpretation III: Innovation and Selection; 1.8 Sources of Reconstruction: The Internal and the External; 1.9 Sensitive and Frigid Methodologies; 1.10 From the Question Why to the Question How; 1.11 The Scientist as a Practical Reasoner; 1.12 The Cognitive and the Practical Reasoner; 1.13 Data and Presentation; Notes; Chapter 2. The Scientist as an Indexical Reasoner: The Contextuality and the Opportunism of Research; 2.1 Bringing Space and Time Back In: The Indexical Logic and the Opportunism of Research

2.2 Local Idiosyncrasies2.3 Occasioned Selections and the Oscillation of Decision Criteria; 2.4 The Neglected Research Site: Organisation vs.



Laboratory Situation; 2.5 Variable Rules, and Power; 2.6 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3. The Scientist as an Analogical Reasoner: A Principle of Orientation and a Critique of the Metaphor Theory of Innovation; 3.1 The Metaphor Theory of Innovation; 3.2 The Scientists' Accounts of Innovation; 3.3 Analogy Relations and the Opportunistic Logic of Research; 3.4 The Opportunism and the Conservatism of Analogical Reasoning

3.5 Ethnotheories of Innovation, or the Assumptions Behind Accounts of Innovation3.6 A Metaphor- or Analogy-Theory of Failure and Mistake; 3.7 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4. The Scientist as a Socially Situated Reasoner: From Scientific Communities to Transscientific Fields; 4.1 The Scientific Community as a Unit of Contextual Organisation; 4.2 Quasi-Economic Models: From Community Gift-Giving to Community Capitalism; 4.3 The Scientist as an Economic Reasoner or 'Who are the Entrepreneurs?""; 4.4 The Labour Interpretation; 4.5 Variable Transscientific Fields; 4.6 Resource-Relationships

4.7 Resource-Relationships: Ultrafragile and Grounded in Conflict4.8 The Transscientific Connection of Research; 4.9 Indeterminacy and the Transscientific Connection of Research; Notes; Chapter 5. The Scientist as a Literary Reasoner, Or the Transformation of Laboratory Reason; 5.1 The ""Products"" of Research; 5.2 The Grounding of a Research Effort in the Laboratory; 5.3 The Grounding of a Research Effort in the Scientific Paper; 5.4 First and Final Versions: The Dissimulation of Literary Intention; 5.5 The Construction of a Web of Reason; 5.6 The Management of Relevance

5.7 The Story of the Laboratory Continued

Sommario/riassunto

The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked upon with the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these places are observed with the objective yet compassionate eye of the visitor from a quite other cultural milieu. There are many surprises that await us if we enter a laboratory in this frame of mind... This study is a realistic enterprise, an attempt to truly represent the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matter



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145524003321

Titolo

ESRI map book

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Redlands, Calif., : Environmental Systems Research Institute, ©1995-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

912

Soggetti

Geographic information systems

Geography - Computer programs

Cartography - Computer programs

Information storage and retrieval systems - Geography

Digital mapping

Cartografie

Geografische informatiesystemen

Geografie

Computermethoden

Information storage and retrieval

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.

Some issues also have a distinctive title.

Volume 25 called Special anniversary edition.