306.45 KNO Knorr-Cetina, Karen. The Manufacture of Knowledge : an Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science / K. Knorr-Cetina; preface by R. Harre. - Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1981. - 189 p. - ISBN 0-08-025777-1. - Текст : непосредственный. Appendices : p. 155 - 172. References : p. 173 - 182. Name index : p. 183 - 186. Subject index : p. 187 - 189
The Scientist as a Practical Reasoner : Introduction to a Constructivist and Contextual Theory of Knowledge The Scientist as an Indexical Reasoner : the Contextuality and the Opportunism of Research The Scientist as an Analogical Reasoner : a Principle of Orientation and a Critique of the Metaphor Theory of Innovation The Scientist as a Socially Situated Reasoner : from Scientific Communities to Transscientific Fields The Scientist as a Literary Reasoner, Or the Transformation of Laboratory Reason The Scientist as a Symbolic Reasoner, Or "What do we Make of the Distinction Between the Natural and the Social Sciences?"
"The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked upon within the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these places are observed with the objective yet compassionate eye of the visitor from a quite other cultural milieu. There are many surprises that await us if we enter a laboratory in this frame of mind ... This study is a realist enterprise, an attempt to truly represent the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matters not of prejudgement but as matters of concern, Karin Knorr-Cetina has developed the first really positive challenge to the philosophy of science since the days of paradigms and internal definitions of meanings" - from the Preface by Rom Harre
