Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998, in series: Cambridge history of science. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.
Contents:
Coda : the obligations of narrative. 6. An outline of constructivism -- 2. Identity and discipline -- 3. The place of production -- 4. Speaking for nature -- 5. Interventions and representations -- 6. Culture and construction -- Coda : the obligations of narrative.
Summary:
Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.
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