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Biographies of scientific objects / edited by Lorraine Daston.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.Description: ix, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226136701 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226136728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121 21
LOC classification:
  • Q175.32.K45 B56 2000
Contents:
Introduction: The Coming Into Being of Scientific Objects / Lorraine Daston -- 1. Preternatural Philosophy / Lorraine Daston -- 2. Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and His Dissertatio de Motu Terrae / Rivka Feldhay -- 3. Dreams and Self-consciousness: Mapping the Mind in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / Doris Kaufmann -- 4. Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi / Jan Goldstein -- 5. The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776-1976) / Gerard Jorland -- 6. "An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought": The Coming into Being and (Almost) Passing Away of "Society" as a Scientific Object / Peter Wagner -- 7. "Sentimental Pessimism" and Ethnographic Experience: Or, Why Culture Is Not a Disappearing "Object" / Marshall Sahlins -- 8. How the Ether Spawned the Microworld / Jed Z. Buchwald --
9. Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality / Theodore M. Porter -- 10. On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects / Bruno Latour -- 11. Cytoplasmic Particles: The Trajectory of A Scientific Object / Hans-Jorg Rheinberger.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Coming Into Being of Scientific Objects / Lorraine Daston -- 1. Preternatural Philosophy / Lorraine Daston -- 2. Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and His Dissertatio de Motu Terrae / Rivka Feldhay -- 3. Dreams and Self-consciousness: Mapping the Mind in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / Doris Kaufmann -- 4. Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi / Jan Goldstein -- 5. The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776-1976) / Gerard Jorland -- 6. "An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought": The Coming into Being and (Almost) Passing Away of "Society" as a Scientific Object / Peter Wagner -- 7. "Sentimental Pessimism" and Ethnographic Experience: Or, Why Culture Is Not a Disappearing "Object" / Marshall Sahlins -- 8. How the Ether Spawned the Microworld / Jed Z. Buchwald --

9. Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality / Theodore M. Porter -- 10. On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects / Bruno Latour -- 11. Cytoplasmic Particles: The Trajectory of A Scientific Object / Hans-Jorg Rheinberger.

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