The mangle of practice : time, agency, and science /

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Author / Creator:	Pickering, Andrew.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995.
Description:	1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Science -- Philosophy. Science -- Social aspects. Science -- Philosophy. Science -- Social aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11244805

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ISBN:	9780226668253 0226668258 0226668029 9780226668024 0226668037 9780226668031
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors--social, technological, conceptual, and natural--that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, discipli.
Other form:	Print version: Pickering, Andrew. Mangle of practice. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995 0226668029

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