The Mangle of Practice : Time, Agency and Science

本文提供了科學、數學和工程實踐的性質以及科學知識生產的理解。作者提出了一種處理科學變化不可預測性的方法，同時考慮到影響創造科學知識相互作用的社會、技術、概念和自然因素的數量。在他看來，機器、工具、事實、理論、概念和數學結構和人類正在不斷地相互轉換關係 - 以文化、時間和地點的突發事件形成的方式“一起”搗亂。

在較大的文化背景下，物質以及人力資源的地位，Pickering使用案例研究來展示這幅關於科學的開放性和多變性本質的圖像如何提高對過去和現在科學工作的理解。他研究了粒子物理學中泡室的構建、夸克的搜索、數學中的四元系統的構建以及工業中計算機控制機床的引入。他用這些例子來解決科學實踐的最基本要素 - 實驗裝置的發展，事實的產生，理論的發展以及機器和社會組織的相互關係。

This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the 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 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 greater understanding of scientific work both past and present. He examines 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.

  Andrew Pickering  (Autor)

Publisher:University of Chicago Press 

ISBN:    978-0226668031 

原價   US 19.75 台幣價 NT$710