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Epistemic cultures

Paperback • 1999 • English • 3. edition

Epistemic cultures: how the sciences make knowledge

By K. Knorr-Cetina

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About the book

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, the enactment of object relations, and the f...Show more

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ISBN

9780674258945

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Edition

3

Original title

Epistemic cultures

Format

Paperback

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