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Making natural knowledge

Jan Golinski

1998236 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Cambridge University Press · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9780521444712
  • 2005University of Chicago Press · 236 pages · ENGISBN 9780226302317
  • 2008University of Chicago Press · ENGISBN 9780226302324
  • 2014University of Chicago Press · ENGISBN 9781283058230

"In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress. Golinski has written a sympathetic but critical survey of this exciting field of research, at a level that can be appreciated by students or anyone else who wants in introduction to contemporary thinking in the development of the sciences."--Jacket.

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