The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power (Writing Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804724369 ISBN 13: 9780804724364

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Disunity of Science Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of unity, ranging from the pleas of condensed matter physicists for disciplinary autonomy all the way to disc... Full description

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"This is a very important work, with contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in science studies....It actually delivers on its promise to renew discussion and develop fresh ideas about the allegation that the sciences are no longer (or never were) unified by a single theoretical view of nature or a methodological foundation."--Michael Lynch, Brunel University

Synopsis:

Is science unified or disunified? This collection brings together contributions from prominent scholars in a variety of scientific disciplines to examine this important theoretical question. They examine whether the sciences are, or ever were, unified by a single theoretical view of nature or a methodological foundation and the implications this has for the relationship between scientific disciplines and between science and society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0804724369
• ISBN 13: 9780804724364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 584
• Editor: Galison Peter, Stump David J.