Making natural knowledge
Subtitle: constructivism and the history of science
By: Jan Golinski.
Series: Cambridge history of science
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Science -- History.; Science -- Historiography.; Constructivism (Philosophy)
Description: "In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress. Golinski has written a sympathetic but critical survey of this exciting field of research, at a level that can be appreciated by students or anyone else who wants in introduction to contemporary thinking in the development of the sciences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.