Biographies of scientific objects /
Biographies of scientific objects /
edited by Lorraine Daston.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.
- ix, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Coming Into Being of Scientific Objects / Preternatural Philosophy / Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and His Dissertatio de Motu Terrae / Dreams and Self-consciousness: Mapping the Mind in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi / The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776-1976) / "An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought": The Coming into Being and (Almost) Passing Away of "Society" as a Scientific Object / "Sentimental Pessimism" and Ethnographic Experience: Or, Why Culture Is Not a Disappearing "Object" / How the Ether Spawned the Microworld / Lorraine Daston -- Lorraine Daston -- Rivka Feldhay -- Doris Kaufmann -- Jan Goldstein -- Gerard Jorland -- Peter Wagner -- Marshall Sahlins -- Jed Z. Buchwald -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality / On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects / Cytoplasmic Particles: The Trajectory of A Scientific Object / Theodore M. Porter -- Bruno Latour -- Hans-Jorg Rheinberger. 9. 10. 11.
0226136701 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226136728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
99043745
Knowledge, Theory of.
Science--Philosophy.
Science--History.
Q175.32.K45 / B56 2000
121
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Coming Into Being of Scientific Objects / Preternatural Philosophy / Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and His Dissertatio de Motu Terrae / Dreams and Self-consciousness: Mapping the Mind in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi / The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776-1976) / "An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought": The Coming into Being and (Almost) Passing Away of "Society" as a Scientific Object / "Sentimental Pessimism" and Ethnographic Experience: Or, Why Culture Is Not a Disappearing "Object" / How the Ether Spawned the Microworld / Lorraine Daston -- Lorraine Daston -- Rivka Feldhay -- Doris Kaufmann -- Jan Goldstein -- Gerard Jorland -- Peter Wagner -- Marshall Sahlins -- Jed Z. Buchwald -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality / On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects / Cytoplasmic Particles: The Trajectory of A Scientific Object / Theodore M. Porter -- Bruno Latour -- Hans-Jorg Rheinberger. 9. 10. 11.
0226136701 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226136728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
99043745
Knowledge, Theory of.
Science--Philosophy.
Science--History.
Q175.32.K45 / B56 2000
121