The Disunity of Science : Boundaries, Contexts, and Power

科學統一還是不統一？在過去的一個世紀裡，這個問題引起了科學家、哲學家、歷史學家和科學社會學家的興趣（和討厭），因為科學和社會是如何融合在一起的。近年來，人們在很大程度上反對統一的修辭，從用於學科自治的凝聚態物理學家一直到涉及地方歷史、女權主義、多元文化主義、後現代主義、科學相對主義和現實主義的人文科學和社會科學的討論及社會建構主義。關於科學不統一的辯論中的許多不同方面都反映在本卷中，這些學者匯集了許多研究科學的學者，女權主義理論家，科學哲學家，科學社會學家。否則他們之間幾乎沒有什麼可說的。

發現形態知識的背景如何？統一科學的哲學後果是什麼？例如，在現實科學知識的圖景中，反現實主義，現實主義或平面主義是否具有可辯護性？如果科學的代表具有不同地方，不同領域，實踐者和實踐者的標準，那麼誰會失敗。

Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of unity, ranging from the please of condensed matter physicists for disciplinary autonomy all the way to discussions in the humanities and social sciences that involve local history, feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, scientific relativism and realism, and social constructivism. Many of these varied aspects of the debate over the disunity of science are reflected in this volume, which brings together a number of scholars studying science who otherwise have had little to say to each other: feminist theorists, philosophers of science, sociologists of science.

How does the context of discover shape knowledge? What are the philosophical consequences of a disunified science? Does, for example, an antirealism, a realism, or an arealism become defensible within a picture of local scientific knowledge? What politics lies behind and follows from a picture of the world of science more like a quilt than a pyramid? Who gains and loses if representation of science has standards that vary from place to place, field to field, and practitioner to practitioner.

   Peter Galison (Autor)

Publisher:Stanford University Press 

ISBN:    978-0804725620 

原價   US 36.95 台幣價 NT$1147