Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface

by Jan Golinski

Book Overview

Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.

Viewing scientific knowledge as a product of human culture, Jan Golinski challenges the traditional trajectory of the history of science...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226302318
• ISBN13: 9780226302317
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"