Cultural Boundaries of Science

Cultural Boundaries of Science
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 0226292614
ISBN-13 : 9780226292618
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Synopsis Cultural Boundaries of Science by : Thomas F. Gieryn

This text argues that an explanation for the cultural authority of science lies where scientific claims leave laboratories and enter boardrooms and living rooms. Here, one uses "maps" to decide who to believe - cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense.

Cultural Boundaries of Science

Cultural Boundaries of Science
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9780226292625
ISBN-13 : 0226292622
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Synopsis Cultural Boundaries of Science by : Thomas F. Gieryn

Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe—cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science. Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others. In a timely epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars."

Culture and Cognition

Culture and Cognition
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9781501746734
ISBN-13 : 1501746731
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Culture and Cognition by : Ronald Schleifer

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas—the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis help us to redefine our very notion of culture. Part I historically situates the concepts of meaning and truth in twentieth-century semiotic theory and cognitive science. Part II contrasts the modes of Freudian case history to the general instance of Einstein's relativity theory and then sets forth a rhetoric of narrative based on the discourse of the aged. Part III examines in the context of literary studies an interdisciplinary concept of cultural cognition. Culture and Cognition will be essential reading for literary theorists, historians and philosophers of science; semioticians; and scholars and students of cultural studies, the sociology of literature, and science and literature.

Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond

Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9789004435506
ISBN-13 : 9004435506
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond by : Reiko Maekawa

The studies in this volume reveal the personal complexities and ambiguities of crossing borders and boundaries, with a focus on modern East Asia. The authors transcend geography-bound border and migration studies by moving beyond the barriers of national borders.

Science as Practice and Culture

Science as Practice and Culture
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 9780226668017
ISBN-13 : 0226668010
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Science as Practice and Culture by : Andrew Pickering

Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice—the work of doing science—and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into two parts. In part I, the contributors map out a coherent set of perspectives on scientific practice and culture, and relate their analyses to central topics in the philosophy of science such as realism, relativism, and incommensurability. The essays in part II seek to delineate the study of science as practice in arguments across its borders with the sociology of scientific knowledge, social epistemology, and reflexive ethnography.

Scientific Pluralism

Scientific Pluralism
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 0816647631
ISBN-13 : 9780816647637
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Scientific Pluralism by : Stephen H. Kellert

Scientific pluralism is an issue at the forefront of philosophy of science. This landmark work addresses the question, Can pluralism be advanced as a general, philosophical interpretation of science? Scientific Pluralism demonstrates the viability of the view that some phenomena require multiple accounts. Pluralists observe that scientists present various—sometimes even incompatible—models of the world and argue that this is due to the complexity of the world and representational limitations. Including investigations in biology, physics, economics, psychology, and mathematics, this work provides an empirical basis for a consistent stance on pluralism and makes the case that it should change the ways that philosophers, historians, and social scientists analyze scientific knowledge. Contributors: John Bell, U of Western Ontario; Michael Dickson, U of South Carolina; Carla Fehr, Iowa State U; Ronald N. Giere, U of Minnesota; Geoffrey Hellman, U of Minnesota; Alan Richardson, U of British Columbia; C. Wade Savage, U of Minnesota; Esther-Mirjam Sent, U of Nijmegen. Stephen H. Kellert is professor of philosophy at Hamline University and a fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Helen E. Longino is professor of philosophy at Stanford University. C. Kenneth Waters is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

Spaces of Identity

Spaces of Identity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781134865307
ISBN-13 : 1134865309
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Spaces of Identity by : David Morley

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.

Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies

Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9783319583655
ISBN-13 : 3319583654
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies by : Luis Reyes-Galindo

This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.

The Two Cultures

The Two Cultures
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781107606142
ISBN-13 : 1107606144
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Two Cultures by : C. P. Snow

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

The Culture Map

The Culture Map
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Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781610392594
ISBN-13 : 1610392590
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Culture Map by : Erin Meyer

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.