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The Disunity of Science:
Boundaries, Context, and Power
Edited by Peter L. Galison & David Stump
Comprises 16 papers addressing the varied aspects of the debate concerning the unity or disunity of science. Contributors, including scholars of feminist theory and philosophers, historians,
and sociologists of science, address topics including how the context of discovery shapes knowledge, whether antirealism, realism, or arealism becomes defensible within a picture of local scientific knowledge, and what politics lie behind and follow from particular views of the world of science.
"This is a very important work, with contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in science studies. What is most impressive about the volume is that 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. It will be a valuable source for years to come for scholars and students of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science, and of the humanities and social sciences as well." -- Michael Lynch
Contact
- Email: galison@fas.harvard.edu
- Phone: (617) 495-3544
Peter's Work
Classes:
- HS 97b: Tutorial - Sophomore Year
- HS 120: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
- HS 121: History and Philosophy of Experimentation
- HS 152: Filming Science
- HS 222r: Research in the History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
- HS 283: Technoprivacy
- HS 295r: Scientific and Legal Doubt: Inter-School, Faculty-Student Workshop
- General Examination (Ph.D.)
- Science A-41: The Einstein Revolution
