Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge

by Karin Knorr Cetina

Book Overview

How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. Her work highlights the diversity of these cultures of knowing and, in its depiction of their differences--in the meaning of the empirical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674258940
• ISBN13: 9780674258945
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"