An Epistemology of the Concrete: Twentieth-Century Histories of Life

by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-J rg Rheinberger, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. In these essays, he examines the history of experiments, concepts, model organisms, instruments, and the gamut of epistemological, institutional, political, and social factors that determine the actual course of the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822345757
• ISBN13: 9780822345756
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"