Golinski, Jan V. (Author)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 27, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 19-36
Edition Details: First article in special issue “Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History”
Language: English
The name history of science reflects a set of assumptions about what science is. Among them is the claim that science is a singular thing, a potentially unified group of disciplines that share a common identity. Long promoted by scientists and philosophers on the basis of a supposedly universal scientific method, this claim now looks very embattled. I trace its development from the early nineteenth century and the growth of the positivist movement to its various manifestations in the twentieth century. Recently, some historians have called for the term science to be relinquished, and for adoption of a more relaxed pluralism. Yet the complex legacy of the notion of singular science cannot be so easily abandoned.
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Article Dear, Peter (2012) Science Is Dead; Long Live Science. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 37-55).
Article Forman, Paul (2012) On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 56-97).
Article Grant, Edward (2012) Reflections of a Troglodyte Historian of Science. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 133-155).
Article Fan, Fa-ti (2012) Science, State, and Citizens: Notes from Another Shore. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 227-249).
Article Kaiser, David (2012) Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas: Enrollment Pressures and the Challenge of Specialization. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 276-302).
Article Strasser, Bruno J. (2012) Collecting Nature: Practices, Styles, and Narratives. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 303-340).
Article Cook, Harold J. (2012) Moving About and Finding Things Out: Economies and Sciences in the Period of the Scientific Revolution. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 101-132).
Article Daston, Lorraine (2012) The Sciences of the Archive. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 156-187).
Article Broman, Thomas (2012) The Semblance of Transparency: Expertise as a Social Good and an Ideology in Enlightened Societies. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 188-208).
Article Porter, Theodore M. (2012) Thin Description: Surface and Depth in Science and Science Studies. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 209-226).
Article Nyhart, Lynn K. (2012) Wissenschaft and Kunde: The General and the Special in Modern Science. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 250-275).
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