Description: Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.
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EAN: 9780804762892
UPC: 9780804762892
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Book Title: On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay (Cultural
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Name: On Historicizing Epistemology : an Essay
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Epistemology, General, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science
Author: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
