Entrée principale:

Latour, Bruno.

Titre et auteur:

Pandora's hope : essays on the reality of science studies / Bruno Latour.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Description:

x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316) and index.
1. "Do You Believe in Reality?" News from the Trenches of the Science Wars -- 2. Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest -- 3. Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific Intelligence -- 4. From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment -- 5. The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur? -- 6. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth -- 7. The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles -- 8. A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic -- 9. The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes -- Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora's Hope?

Résumé:

Using case studies of scientists in the Amazon analysing soil and studying the fermentation of lactic acid, the author shows the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0674653351 (alk. paper)
9780674653351 (alk. paper)
067465336X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780674653368 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Realism.
Science Philosophy.
Réalisme.
Sciences Philosophie.
Naturwissenschaften
Realismus
Wirklichkeit
Wissenschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
Wetenschapsfilosofie.
Exacte wetenschappen.
Realisme (filosofie)

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 287827
Cote: BIB 229230
Statut: Disponible