The Mangle of Practice

Time, Agency, and Science

By: Andrew Pickering

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Hardcover | 15 August 1995 | Edition Number 1

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This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge.
Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors--social, technological, conceptual, and natural--that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one another--"mangled" together in unforeseeable ways that are shaped by the contingencies of culture, time, and place.
Situating material as well as human agency in their larger cultural context, Pickering uses case studies to show how this picture of the open, changeable nature of science advances a richer understanding of scientific work both past and present. Pickering examines in detail the building of the bubble chamber in particle physics, the search for the quark, the construction of the quarternion system in mathematics, and the introduction of computer-controlled machine tools in industry. He uses these examples to address the most basic elements of scientific practice--the development of experimental apparatus, the production of facts, the development of theory, and the interrelation of machines and social organization.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society History of Science Philosophy of Science Engineering & Technology Technology in General Technical Design Ergonomics Society & Culture Philosophy

Preface
The Mangle of Practice
Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber
Facts: The Hunting of the Quark
Concepts: Constructing Quaternions
Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools
Living in the Material World
Through the Mangle
References
Index
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