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This book is a result from a collective study on philosophy of scientific practice (PSP), which began around 2002 and still ongoing. There is an apparently incr
How Scientific Practices Matter
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Joseph Rouse
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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How can we understand the world as a whole instead of separate natural and human realms? Joseph T. Rouse proposes an approach to this classic problem based on r
Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
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Pages: 381
Authors: Catelijne Coopmans
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-03 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on rep
Changing Order
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Harry Collins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This fascinating study in the sociology of science explores the way scientists conduct, and draw conclusions from, their experiments. The book is organized arou
Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Léna Soler
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were a