Science and the Mangle of Practice

科学与实践的冲突

• 批准号: 9122809
• 负责人: Andrew Pickering
• 金额: $ 6.38万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-05-15 至 1994-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9122809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Mangle; Practice

Interest in science has long centered on scientific knowledge, especially "high" theory, but the past decade has seen the convergence of scholars in many disciplines upon scientific practice--the doing of science, the process of making theories, facts, instruments, institutions--as a key topic for research. Dr. Pickering is developing a general analysis of the nature of scientific practice. The empirical base for this work consists primarily in two extended case studies from his own work, the search for quarks in high energy physics and the development of quaternions in mathematics, and three shorter studies drawn from the secondary historical literature. He is also weaving in other ethnographic and historical studies of science as appropriate. He is relating his analysis to more familiar perspectives on scientific knowledge through discussion of contemporary debates on the role of nature, reason and the `social' in science and related debates on the objectivity, relativity or historicity of scientific knowledge. He is also discussing disciplinarity in science studies, and suggests that a shared interest in practice can provide the basis for a genuine synthesis in this field.

对科学的兴趣长期以来一直集中在科学知识上， 特别是“高”理论，但过去十年来， 许多学科的学者在科学 实践--科学的实践，理论的形成过程， 事实、工具、机构-作为研究的一个关键主题。 博士 皮克林正在发展一种对 科学实践。 这项工作的经验基础包括 主要是在两个扩展的案例研究，从他自己的工作， 在高能物理中寻找夸克和发展 数学中的四元数，以及三个较短的研究， 第二历史文献。 他也在编织其他 民族志和科学的历史研究。 他 将他的分析与人们更熟悉的观点联系起来， 科学知识，通过讨论当代辩论， 自然、理性和“社会”在科学中的作用以及 科学的客观性、相对性或历史性之争 知识 他也在讨论科学中的纪律性 研究，并建议，在实践中的共同利益， 为这一领域的真正综合提供基础。