Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge

by Karin Knorr Cetina

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How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. Her work highlights the diversity of these cultures of knowing and, in its depiction of their differences--in the meaning of the empirical,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674258940

ISBN13:9780674258945

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Cultural Education & Reference Epistemology History & Philosophy Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks

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