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The manufacture of knowledge : an essay on the constructivist and contextual nature of science / / Karin D. Knorr-Cetina ; preface by Rom Harré
The manufacture of knowledge : an essay on the constructivist and contextual nature of science / / Karin D. Knorr-Cetina ; preface by Rom Harré
Autore Knorr-Cetina K (Karin)
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England ; ; Elmsford, New York : , : Pergamon Press, , 1981
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (204 p.)
Disciplina 306.45
Collana Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies
Soggetto topico Science - Methodology
Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN 1-4832-8574-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910789455303321
Knorr-Cetina K (Karin)  
Oxford, England ; ; Elmsford, New York : , : Pergamon Press, , 1981
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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The manufacture of knowledge : an essay on the constructivist and contextual nature of science / / Karin D. Knorr-Cetina ; preface by Rom Harré
The manufacture of knowledge : an essay on the constructivist and contextual nature of science / / Karin D. Knorr-Cetina ; preface by Rom Harré
Autore Knorr-Cetina K (Karin)
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England ; ; Elmsford, New York : , : Pergamon Press, , 1981
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (204 p.)
Disciplina 306.45
Collana Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies
Soggetto topico Science - Methodology
Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN 1-4832-8574-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910807755203321
Knorr-Cetina K (Karin)  
Oxford, England ; ; Elmsford, New York : , : Pergamon Press, , 1981
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui