The scenes of inquiry : on the reality of questions in the sciences /
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| Author / Creator: | Jardine, Nicholas |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. |
| Description: | x, 245 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1194101 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Focussing on Questions
- Part I. Local Reality: Scenes of natural history
- Local reality and interpretation
- Explaining scenes
- The origins of methods
- Legitimation and history
- A new historiography
- Part II. Absolute Reality: Absolute reality and dissociation
- The sociological challenge
- Rhetoric, aesthetics, and realiability
- Conclusion: Beware of science
- Index
