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  1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas Samuel Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Otto Neurath.
    A scientific community cannot practice its trade without some set of received beliefs. These beliefs form the foundation of the "educational initiation that prepares and licenses the student for professional practice". The nature of the "rigorous and rigid" preparation helps ensure that the received beliefs are firmly fixed in the student's mind. Scientists take great pains to defend the assumption that scientists know what the world is like...To this end, "normal science" will often suppress novelties which undermine its foundations. Research (...)
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  • The Ad Hoc Collective Work of Building Gothic Cathedrals with Templates, String, and Geometry.David Turnbull - 1993 - Science, Technology and Human Values 18 (3):315-340.
    Gothic cathedrals like Chartres were built in a discontinuous process by groups of masons using their own local knowledge, measures, and techniques. They had neither plans nor knowledge of structural mechanics. The success of the masons in building such large complex innovative structures lies in the use of templates, string, constructive geometry, and social organization to assemble a coherent whole from the messy heterogeneous practices of diverse groups of workers. Chartres resulted from the ad hoc accumulation of the work of (...)
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  • The social organisation of a university laboratory.Gerald M. Swatez - 1970 - Minerva 8 (1-4):36-58.
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  • The philosophy of the present.George Herbert Mead - 1932 - Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. Edited by Arthur Edward Murphy.
    George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book represents Mead's philosophy of experience, so central to his outlook. The present as unique experience is the focus of this deep analysis of the basic structure of temporality and consciousness. Mead emphasizes the novel character of both the present and the past. Though science is predicated on the assumption that (...)
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  • Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing: Birdwatching as an exemplary observational activity. [REVIEW]John Law & Michael Lynch - 1988 - Human Studies 11 (2-3):271 - 303.
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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.
    Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index.
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  • Tinkering toward success. [REVIEW]Karin D. Knorr - 1979 - Theory and Society 8 (3):347-376.
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  • Experience and Nature.John Dewey - 1958 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 15 (1):98-98.
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  • Beamtimes and Lifetimes.Sharon Traweek (ed.) - 1988 - Harvard University Press.
    Particle physicists constitute a community of sophisticated mythmakers—explicators of the nature of matter who forever alter our views of space and time. But who are these people? What is their world really like? Traweek, a bold observer of culture, opens the door to this unusual domain and offers us a glimpse into the inner sanctum.
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  • Laboratory Life: The construction of scientific facts.Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar - 1986 - Princeton University Press.
    Chapter 1 FROM ORDER TO DISORDER 5 mins. John enters and goes into his office. He says something very quickly about having made a bad mistake. He had sent the review of a paper. . . . The rest of the sentence is inaudible. 5 mins.
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  • Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands.B. Latour - 1986 - Knowledge and Society 6:1--40.
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  • The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences.Adele E. Clarke & Joan H. Fujimura - 1994 - Journal of the History of Biology 27 (1):172-174.
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  • Experience and Nature.John Dewey - 1928 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 35 (1):10-12.
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  • Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop.Douglas Harper - 1990 - Human Studies 13 (3):275-284.
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